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| This dish is the ultimate comfort food with sweet, salty, sour and spicy flavors. The mustard cabbage just melts in your mouth! |
The direct translation of "Choy Geok" is leftover food. This will probably be your best-tasting leftovers ever. This dish often makes its way to our dining table while I was growing up especially after every festival where there are plenty of leftovers from big dinner feasts. There is so much good food during a Chinese festival/celebration that most of us are so stuffed with such an assortment of rich meats especially roast duck and pork and etc.
Our normal everyday meal consists of fish, chicken, eggs/tofu, clear soup and a wide variety of flash-fried vegetables. I don't really know who invented this dish or how it came into being but I find it very appropriate in terms of cleansing the body and somehow removing the after-taste of rich foods, thus restoring a right balance. I don't think that I was real crazy about this dish, perhaps my palate was not fully developed. The mustard cabbage has a pungent, peppery bite and a slightly bitter flavor. These last 2 years I have grown to love it and now have frequent cravings for it. It must be good! My husband has since joined me in my cravings.
