Spinach in Soy Sauce

Spinach is a nutritious vegetable with a fine flavour. The trend throughout the West is of consuming more and more fresh spinach instead of tinned or frozen, and raw spinach leaves are increasingly used in salad. This recipe is based on a traditional southern Chinese method but, instead of serving the cooked spinach warm, I serve it cold. In the area around Canton there is a variety called water spinach, which has a milder taste and which, when cooked, presents a pleasing contrast between t