Welcome to part 2/12 of my series, 'Chinese and their Greens'. If any of you have been to a local wet market, you have surely seen these long, pointy, angled vegetables that seem to be present at every vegetable vendor yet you have no idea what you could possibly do with them. They are part of the luffa family of vegetables and are known by many names such as luffa gourd, sponge gourd, angled gourd and ridged luffa to name a few. Although the outer skin seems tough, it is act

Having just returned from a 9-day trip to Melbourne to visit my first-born, I have learned many things. One is that kids don't miss you when you are around so send them away for school if possible. Second is that when one is in Hong Kong, eat more Chinese greens as they are neither easily accessible or cheap in many other parts of the world. Take the ubiquitous staple on virtually every local Chinese family dinner table 'CHOYSUM' as an example. What I found in supermarkets an