蔬菜

[rezaf]

can somone provide a short list of common vegetables in chinese? i am trired of not being able to say the name of different vegetables when ordering food in the cafeteria.

[skylee]

Tired? Already?

Here are some lists of common vegetables ->

• http://www.biox.cn/content/20060415/44005.htm
  
• http://infos.edulife.com.cn/200612/1192233444.html
  
• http://www.chundeng.com/micai/zrsw/scmc_219.html
  

You should be able to get the pinyin easily using tools such as this -> http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php

[rezaf]

thanks, tomato is 西红柿 or 番茄？

[dalaowai]

Both are acceptable ways of saying tomato. No difference. Most people that I know tend to use 番茄.

Also potato can be 马铃薯 or 土豆.

[889]

Potato can also appear as 洋竽 yangyu, as in 干煸洋竽丝 ganbian yangyu si.

[fireball9261]

If you are in Taiwan, 土豆 means peanuts. You need to use 马铃薯 for potato in Taiwan.

If you are in Hong Kong, 油菜 is 蠔油芥蘭 (Chinese broccoli with oyster sauce) or any leafy vegetable cooked with oyster sauce according to http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E6%B2%B9%E8%8F%9C_%28%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%29&variant=zh-tw.

If you are in Jiangsu or Zhejiang area (I hope it is still this way) or Taiwan, 油菜 is a specific vegetable, and I think it's Rapeseed leaves, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed (English). The leafy green thing with nice little flowers is the vegetable. It has a mild bitter flavor, but pretty tasty when fresh. In the site: http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E6%B2%B9%E8%8F%9C&variant=zh-tw (Chinese), it has better explanations. The one in the Southern China is a kind of Brassica rapa chinensis.

Apparently, there is also the Northern China's 小油菜, and it is also called 蕓薹、胡菜，or 寒菜.

[Littleweed]

莴笋（wo1 sun3）--- Chinese lettuce: I like this very much. It can be fried with eggs or garlic chives. Green and crunchy.

青菜 （qing1 cai4）----bak choi. I call all green leaf vegetables qing cai.

[Littleweed]

南瓜（nan2 gua1）---pumkin

冬瓜 （dong1 gua1）----winter mellon

苦瓜 （ku3 gua1）-----bitter mellon

黄瓜 （huang2 gua1）------cucumber