There should be many people in Taiwan who have only heard of wheat but not barley, but don’t underestimate it. It was the first crop domesticated by humans along with wheat, peas and lentils! Barley is an annual plant of the gramineous Hordeum genus. Its ancestor is wild barley that…

When it comes to Cannabis, what do you think of? Is it marijuana? Or rope? Although Cannabis is illegal in many countries, it was once an important fiber crop. …

Every Dragon Boat Festival, there will be delicious rice dumplings and a dragon boat race. I wonder if you have noticed that during the Dragon Boat Festival, there are often a bunch of plants in front of the door of every house? …

Have you eaten garlic? I think many people’s first impression of garlic should be its smell! My earliest memory of garlic is that fried water spinach (wong cai) will always contain fried garlic cloves. Garlic is a perennial plant of the genus Allium of the monocotyledonous family Allium. Garlic is…

There should be very few people who have never eaten brown mustard (芥菜，Brassica juncea) in Taiwan. Although many people don’t like fresh brown mustard with a bitter taste, people should be familiar with zha cai（榨菜）, suan cai（酸菜）, fu cai（福菜）, and meigan cai（梅干菜）. You must have eaten the “zha cai with…

The first time I heard the name of a breadfruit tree was on the campus of my elementary school. …

There are very few people in Taiwan who have never seen common beans! Whether at home or in a buffet, stir-fried common beans are very common vegetables; freshly fried common beans are served on the table, and you can already taste the sweet taste just by smelling the aroma! But…

Do you like to drink papaya milk? In Taiwan, there is a lot of papaya milk in the cold drinking houses and fruit juice stalls in the streets and alleys. However, papaya is more than papaya milk. …

Do you like the “assorted vegetables’’ commonly found in Taiwanese bento restaurants? In the “assorted vegetables’’, the yellow ones are corn, the orange ones are carrots, and the green ones are peas. Pea (garden pea, Pisum sativum) is an annual herbaceous plant belonging to the leguminous family. The tender stems…