Assorted Vegetarian Dish

Name: Assorted Vegetarian Dish (Lo han chai)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 bamboo shoot; 10 mushrooms; ½ carrot; 1 potato; 1 cucumber; ⅔ pound winter melon or daikon radish; ⅔ pound winter melon or daikon radish; 6 black mushrooms; ¼ pound cauliflower; ½ cup macaroni; 1 bean curd stick (optional); 10 pieces baby corn; 12 quail eggs (cooked); 3 tablespoons soy sauce; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 cup soup stock (chicken); 1 cup soup stock (chicken); 5 tablespoons oil; 1 teaspoon sugar; ½ tablespoon sesame oil

Lo han chai

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

1 bamboo shoot
1 cucumber
1 potato
½

Asia
Taiwan

Method

Cut the bamboo shoot, cucumber, potato, winter melon, carrot, cauliflower into small varied shapes (all about the same size). Then put them into the boiling water, following a sequence according to the degree of their hardness. Those hardest should be cooked first. Cook over high heat, until all become tender. Afterwards put them into cold water immediately — the reason