China Moon House Salad with Fresh Ginger Vinaigrette

The Chinese almost never eat raw salad greens. It is the legacy of a history of fertilizing fields with human excrement (aka “night soil”), and a consequent habit of eating only cooked foods. At most, Chinese in modern times will cradle a spoonful of minced squab in an iceberg lettuce cup or down some shreds of lettuce as the icing on a Big Mac.

Tradition notwithstanding, it was a natural that we devise a House Salad at China Moon. The daily California market holds an abundance of b