BOX 5 Foods in Traditional Chinese Cuisine (continued)
Wood ear mushrooms (looks like a crinkled ear with a dark-to-light brown color)
Yardlong bean (also called asparagus bean or Chinese long bean; resembles a very long green bean that is grown to about a foot in length)
Fruits Apple
Banana
Dragon fruit (also known as pitaya; a tropical fruit with a deep pink color skin) Durian (a large tropical fruit with a spiky outer shell and a unique pungent smell)
Goji berry (dried, resembling raisins but red in color; often used in soups, along with young goji leaves)
Grape Guava
Kumquat (a small citrus fruit that is consumed whole—with the skin and the flesh)
Lychee (also known as litchi or litchee; round fruit about 1 inch in diameter with bright orange skin and white flesh)
Longan (round fruit about 0.5 inches in diameter with light-grown skin and white flesh) Mango
Orange Papaya
Passion fruit Pear
Peach
Pineapple Plum
Cantonese muk yi
dau gok
ping gwo heung jiu
fo lung gwo lau lin
gau gei tai ji
faan sek lau gam gat lai ji
lung ngaan mong gwo
chaang muk gwa
yit ching gwo lei
tou bo lo sai mui
Pomelo (a large citrus fruit with skin 1 to 2 inches in thickness, and a sweet and tangy flesh) luk yau Starfruit (a star-shaped fruit with a green, glossy skin; usually available in autumn) Tangerine
Watermelon
Animal-based protein foods Beef
Chicken
Chicken feet Chicken liver
Chinese sausage Eggs Chicken egg
Century egg (preserved with salt and quicklime; has a black egg yolk, black translucent color to the egg white with a gelatin texture, and a fishy taste)