{"id":5272,"date":"2018-02-21T12:55:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T17:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=5272"},"modified":"2019-10-27T15:28:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T19:28:40","slug":"ba-bao-cai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=5272","title":{"rendered":"Ba Bao Cai"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMore of my home cooking, this time from China \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf3 by way of Brooklyn \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8!<\/p>\n

One of the dishes I like to make for Chinese New Year is B\u0101 Bao C\u00e0i (Eight Treasure Vegetables) \u516b\u5b9d\u83dc. By way of identification, the object that looks a slice of potato in this photo is arrowhead (sometimes called Chinese arrowroot), easy to find in Chinatown this time of year; behind it is a chunk of gluten (seitan) \u2013 it soaks up sauce like a sponge; a bean curd knot \u2013 you can buy these fresh, frozen, or dried and they\u2019re adorable; up near the chopsticks is a piece of sweet & spicy prepared bean curd; peanuts; and less obvious in this photo are dried lily buds, an indispensable ingredient in Moo Shu Pork; dried bean curd skin; smoked tofu; dried shiitake mushrooms; and wood ear (black fungus). Trust me, they\u2019re in there; dig for buried treasures if you like. You could almost play Where\u2019s Waldo with it! Lots of seasonings went into the savory sauce, too many to list here. (You think I\u2019m gonna give away my recipe?! \ud83d\ude09)<\/p>\n

So there\u2019s my spin on Eight Treasure Vegetables. Oh wait. That\u2019s ten treasures, not eight. So I guess I made Sh\u00ed Bao C\u00e0i!<\/p>\n

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Instagram Post 2\/21\/2018 (Click on any image to view it in high resolution.) More of my home cooking, this time from China \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf3 by way of Brooklyn \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8! One of the dishes I like to make for Chinese New Year … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,31,59],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-5272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-home-cookin","category-instagram","tag-chinese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5274,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions\/5274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}