Broccoli with Ginger Juice

For this simple and easy dish you can use either Chinese broccoli or the ordinary broccoli, even though the Chinese themselves, understandably so, have a penchant for the former, which is reminiscent of asparagus in flavour. For the gourmet palate, it is also customary to use only the central spears which, needless to add, are the most tender. As broccoli, Chinese or otherwise, is good basic material to make vegetarian stock, the remaining parts can be fed into the stockpot, and hence not w