This is the first time we saw a green radish.

In Chinese, no matter it is a white radish, purple radish, green radish or even carrot, we called them “LuoBo”.

“HuLuoBo” - Carrot.
“HongLuoBo” - Red radish.
“BaiLuoBo” - White radish.
“ZiLuoBo” - Purple radish.
“QingLuoBo” - Green Radish.

We bought it from a hypermarket.  My mum said that it is uncommon to see green radish here and it must be imported from other country.  My sister-in-law quickly took out a piece of newspaper and show us that there are different types (about 20 types) of radishes and carrots.  The articles with pictures was published in the health section of a Chinese newspaper a few days before we found and bought this green radish.

We were not sure how to cook it, and finally we used it to make soup.  It tastes similar to white radish.  I wonder if the green radish can be used to make Chinese radish cake (”ChaiTaoKueh” in Hokkien - a Chinese Dialect) which is usually made using white radish.  Chinese radish cake is our favorite delicacies.  Yes, it is delicious.

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