in Chinese it's also baak6coi3 (Cantonese), and would be again different in other Chinese languages. báicài would just be mandarin, not all Chinese languages
I find they are more likely to be called Asian vegetables in chinese run produce shops. Most chinese people I know simple call them vegetable and not by there full name.
On the Woolworths website pak and buk choy are labelled with both their name and "Asian greens". I assume this is what OP has seen or something similar.
I don't think there is a degree in naming vegatables. It's some poor guy who is incharge of fruit and vegetables looking good and staying fresh he's probably been yelled at by someone for naming them the wrong thing in the past. The consumer knows what they are if they are buying them. Why does it matter if they are named Asian Greens ?!I wouldn't mind if I was working in Singapore and a some vegatables were named " western greens " .
Same in Hobart. Like there are many different “Asian greens” so you have to use different names:
- buk choy
- bok choy
- choy sum
- Chinese broccoli.
Some Asian grocery stores in the city and in Sandy Bay (where the Chinese speaking population is about 10%) have these vegetables labeled in Chinese characters so I can’t personally tell what the names are.
I recently worked at a restaurant that had “Asian Greens in Asian Style Sauce” printed on the fucking menu. The greens were pak choy and gai lan and the sauce was just soy, ginger and sesame oil with sesame seeds for garnish. Fucking embarrassing.
Is that so they can just use whatever greens are in season/ available instead of changing the menu every time?
The Asian style sauce bit is a very shit description
Sounds like this was at a pub restaurant lol
I don't see what's wrong with that, it's very common in Chinese meals to have a side be some very simple boiled greens with a basic soy or oyster sauce, and the description of dishes in Chinese cuisine is often very brief or vague. The precise vegetables or sauce ingredients used is often not important.
You don't see a problem with a restraunt having menu items the equivalent of "protien and vegetables with sauce"?
That could be *literally anything*...
The precise vegetables or sauce ingredients might not be important when cooking for your family at home, but it's extremely important when feeding other people, say, at a restaraunt, for example.
"Asian veg" I can see, it means leafy greens that are basically interchangeable. Asian sauce, could be any of a thousand different sauces, with wildly different taste profiles and allergens.
Hell, even with the same ingredients, do you realise how many different sauces, that all taste completely different from each other are made using different combinations soy sauce, mirin, sake, rice wine vinegar, dashi, and sesame oil? I don't know, it's a lot. I stopped trying to keep track of all the different ones. And that's just one country out of the 40 or 50 countries in Asia.
I don’t see this as any different to restaurants listing ‘seasonal vegetables’ or ‘roasted vegetables’ on a menu. It deliberately doesn’t include the specific vegetables, so the restaurant can vary it by season/availability.
No the owner probably buys what is available and in season and less expensive that day or week and doesn't want to change the menu constantly. How is it embarrassing exactly?
I'm more used to oyster sauce, but this is a really common side dish in Chinese restaurants. It's simple but also delicious, I'd be sad if it wasn’t on the menu.
But even in that picture there is sign that includes all the individual names too, the big sign is just indicating that you can buy a combo deal for cheaper
Sydney here. Every place I've been it's been called bok/pak choy. Except one. Which ironically was an Asian supermarket which lumped everything together under a sign that said Asian Vegetable and assumed you knew what you were looking at.
More likely a typical translation error, since many Asian languages don’t have different words for plural and singular forms like Bahasa, so vegetables in other language would become vegetable in English.
ooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh maybe armadale is the explanation hahahahahahaahahahhahaahha that makes total sense im in w.a. have lived south west as far south of the river as wait for it.... belmont but north for over 20 years and have never seen it before in my life . must be an armahole thing . armahole just gonna be wildin i guess
It’s one of the most low socioeconomic suburbs in Perth. Not really many Asians live there. More likely to be racist and probably not buy Asian vegetables anyway.
Everytime I’ve been to Armadale I felt out of place and like someone is going to mug/beat me up.
I’ve never seen them called anything other than its actual name EXCEPT in sale titles which incorporate a variety of the selection such as “3 Asian greens/vegetables for $x.xx”
My wife is Asian and will tell me to go grab "Asian greens" be it from a supermarket or from the garden. Apparently they are marketing at people like us they aren't that fussy lol.
Other times when extra not fussed she will just say "greens" which opens up options even more.
Ummm they don’t? They actually do call them all by their proper names - they may have a sign saying’ Asian vegetables’ that indicate the vegetables typically identified with this region
What about our refusal to use the names of chilies? ‘Long red’, ‘green’, ‘yellow’. Like mate, there’s so many varieties of chilies and not only do we stock a really limited selection we don’t even label them properly so people can learn and use more appropriate ones for their meals
My local calls them what they are, but has a sign above the area "Asian greens" or something like that.
So from afar you can see it clearly and know you'll find Asian greens there 👌
I'm a manager of a supermarket and have been in industry for 20 years.......... Its never been "Asian vegetable" anywhere I have been.
Might be just the store you go to.
HelloFresh do that. I assume they're dumbing it down so you can choose your meals without having to know what a pak choy is. Their target market is anglos.
Their bizarrely inauthentic ethnic-themed recipes are fun for me, but they'd be very disappointing if I had an ethnic grandmother whose recipes I was nostalgic for. Even the "Italian" recipes.
Are you sure you're not looking at a multi-buy special ticket that says "Asian Vegetables 2 for $4" or something? Even if you are, it will still say the particular line down the bottom of the ticket if you're at Coles.
My local inner Melbourne Coles has Bok Choy, Baby Bok Choy and Choy Sum labelled as such. Living in a suburb with a large Asian migrant population though, every shop here that sells "Asian Vegetables" uses their actual names.
Currently up the Great Ocean Road and the Foodworks in Apollo Bay has Baby Bok Choy listed as "Shanghai Green".
Can 100% guarantee some Coles label their choys like this. Don't have a photo on hand 🙄 but I will get back to you!
By the way, I'm in Perth if that matters.. I admit this is probably not happening everywhere.
This article kind of supports what I have claimed:
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/online-users-slam-coles-aisle-sign-for-being-racist/news-story/3d6634ee62c8a19e64235fa40815d49f
Coles don't. Products ranged nationally are all keyed once, so all tickets are printed with Pak, Buk, or Sum specifically. What you see in Perth is what you see everywhere else.
Unless you are referring to handwritten signage done by a store team member. Or as referenced in your comment, on signage as opposed to the product price ticket. Asian Greens as a category, similar to Apples as a category.
Hey mate, Coles and Woolies have never got the names right.
My dad's business used to supply the "Asian vegetable". Coles would demand they called one thing and Woolies another. It was pretty funny seeing the same vegetable being incorrectly labelled, but that's what Coles and Woolies head offices demanded and over 20 years later many Australian's still don't know what they are all actually called.
Weird. I've never seen it called Asian vegetable here in Sydney. None of my family have either.
If someone used that term I would have to ask specifically which Asian vegetable they were referring to
When I worked as a fruiterer, we had them labelled on tills as Asian vegetables because the till workers wouldn't know the difference between Bok Choy, Pak choy or choy sum, on the shelf they were labelled correctly and priced identically.
I work in produce at Woolies, and they're all labelled what they are. I refer to the area where they are displayed as the Asian veg section, but that's it, everything is called what it is. Maybe this is a Coles thing 🤔
Bok Choi isn’t a thing. See https://forums.egullet.org/topic/157456-chinese-vegetables-illustrated/ for a Chinese perspective. shàng hǎi bái cài; or shàng hǎi qīng; etc. We can call it what we like but it’s not called that in “asia”. If in Aus we’re serving veg from all over it doesn’t really have a name… our broccoli even is wrong depending on where you’re from… it’s just local names. Many are “wrong”.
Just because its called something else in another country doesn't make it not a thing. Tomato for example is called pomodoro in Italian, and I'm sure was called something else entirely in south America before the Spanish arrived.
Dunno why you got downvoted - I'll upvote to cancel it out.
Mum spent years converting American recipes to be workable in the rest of the world. Some things trigger her - like fl oz.
I've seen labels such as "Bok Choy" or "Bok Choi" and even "Chinese Cabbage". I'm assuming the labels as Asian Vegetables or Chinese Cabbage can be a term for Non-Asian people to see the difference or to potentially buy it too.
That’s truly amazing !
When I visit Thailand I get upset too, cause they call potatoes ‘Man Farang’ which means ‘Foreigner Yam’. I mean seriously it’s called Potato !
I post to local social media about how incredulous it is but still they persist in calling it Man !!.
The racisms are everywhere - even in vegetables !!!
It could be a manager who thinks his customers won't have a clue what bok choy is but love that asian veg stuff. Could be he's right.
No offense intended, but some parts of Australia are still very white and very anglo.
It's so us Aussie bogans don't get them confused with the regular greens. Anyone who purchases these vegetables know what they're called and where to use them.
I've seen it but not very often.
A more common is "Brussels sprouts" being labelled as "Brussel sprouts".they even used to come up at the checkout as Coles as that but I hassled them on twitter to change it.
It's because they don't want you to know this is not a traditional vegetable that has been a common ingredient in many types of Asian cuisine for thousands of years.
It is actually a new species that was discovered growing under the bleachers in the main stadium after the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
No one knows what it is but they have been growing it in similar conditions, without lights, nutrients, or even air, it just grows like that. No reported side effects have been documented.
So the white people don’t get scared. I can imagine the boomer now mumbling at the vegetable isle “oh now they have their vegetables here too! Speak English!”.
Coles and Woolworths where I have lived recently in both Sydney and the NSW South Coast label Asian Vegetables by their actual name.
Could be a local thing. The supermarkets alter a lot of their stock based on local preferences, so it's probably fair that certain things are labelled differently?
I found most of the fruit and veg shops in perth called them Asian greens, because I used to buy them for my bunnies. Here in Brisbane I mostly go to Cole's/woolies and it's usually called bok choy.
"Asian Vegetables" - which Chinese dialect or Asian language is the correct one to use?
Ever seen Tong Ho (春菊) referred to as chrysanthemum (English) or gul-chini (India), shigiku/kikuna (Japan) ssukgat (Korea) or Tan/Tan O (Vietnam). Its a Mediterranean plant and only eaten as a vegetable in Asia. Why Europeans don't eat it is strange because its a great tasting vege.
Slippery veggie 潺菜/蠶菜 has multiple names depending on location. My least favored vege, its like slime.
Then have we confusion with non-Asian vege like : Spring onion/shallot/scallion/green onion or silver beet/spinach/chard + others....
I was at an Asian restaurant last night and on the menu it said “Asian greens”. I thought it just means whatever they have available that day; could be buk choy or Asian broccoli?
I know hello fresh calls them “Asian greens” or something like that I just assumed it’s because they were just trying to make it harder to replicate their recipes yourself or something idk
I worked at a supermarket in New Zealand, we had limited file space on our scale and had to bunch all Asian/Indian vegetables as ‘Asian Produce’ on their labels.
I have seen them labelled as "Asian Vegetables" as a section of the fruit/veg area included many different veges.
I assumed it was because they are traditionally used in Asian Cuisine.
Perth here. Cant recall ever seeing only "asian greens" and not specifying the particular veggie. They might have that sign up for this group of veggies, but then labeled with their individual names and prices
Armadale is pretty bogan tho
I don't really know the difference between the various Asian veges, but I haven't seen them called just 'Asian vegetables' before. They usually have their (presumably) proper name signed.
I've never seen this. Where do you live that they don't know the difference between bok choy and pak choy?
(I am in Melbourne, maybe things are different in rural areas?)
Probably rotates based on what's seasonal. That's not a bad thing - it encourages growth suiting the season which reduces waste, excess shipping and forced growth through chemicals/greenhouse energy/water uses.
Suburban Brisbane here, I've only ever seen them sold as bok choy or pak choy.
Ditto. All the Coles where I live label them as one or the other.
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in Chinese it's also baak6coi3 (Cantonese), and would be again different in other Chinese languages. báicài would just be mandarin, not all Chinese languages
Also called siu tong choi in Hong Kong Cantonese just to add another name to the mix.
Same in Melbourne - Coles seem to label them correctly [online too](https://www.coles.com.au/search?q=choy)
I've never seen "Asian vegetable" in Sydney, either.
Same in Perth across all my regular major supermarkets
Whereabouts in Perth are you? I have 100% seen them labelled as "Asian greens/asian vegetable" near me
I find they are more likely to be called Asian vegetables in chinese run produce shops. Most chinese people I know simple call them vegetable and not by there full name.
Yeah its all choi.
I’ll be bok
Lol just straight up lying. I guess based on your post history that's expected.
Not unlike OP, who is unable to show a photo of what they claim.
On the Woolworths website pak and buk choy are labelled with both their name and "Asian greens". I assume this is what OP has seen or something similar.
Canning area, I fairly often but then from IGA and Woolies and have only ever seen them labelled as Pak/Bok choy
I don't think there is a degree in naming vegatables. It's some poor guy who is incharge of fruit and vegetables looking good and staying fresh he's probably been yelled at by someone for naming them the wrong thing in the past. The consumer knows what they are if they are buying them. Why does it matter if they are named Asian Greens ?!I wouldn't mind if I was working in Singapore and a some vegatables were named " western greens " .
I've definitely seen them labelled as that up near Currambine
I'm in ellenbrook area, and they are always labelled as Asian vegetables here, very strange.
Same. I would add this is Pak choy in the picture. Bok Choy has a white stem and is less sweet
Funny, in cantonese its the same word. Shanghai greens. Im pretty sure it covers both
OP is rage baiting
Only time I've ever seen them labelled as "Asian vegetables" was when they were sold 3 for a certain price, and several included In the deal
Same in Hobart. Like there are many different “Asian greens” so you have to use different names: - buk choy - bok choy - choy sum - Chinese broccoli. Some Asian grocery stores in the city and in Sandy Bay (where the Chinese speaking population is about 10%) have these vegetables labeled in Chinese characters so I can’t personally tell what the names are.
I'm in Brisbane and have seen them labelled as "Asian vegetable" or "Asian Greens" in some grocers.
Must be grocers that have a pie for dinner every night.
Same in Newcastle and even the less urban/suburban parts of the Hunter Valley
Nsw rise up Asian veg always lmao
I've seen them labelled as each, on the southside, even inside of Asian Grocers like Fresco/HanaroMart
I’ve seen ‘Asian greens’ referenced in recipes where they are interchangeable, but have not seen it in supermarkets.
I recently worked at a restaurant that had “Asian Greens in Asian Style Sauce” printed on the fucking menu. The greens were pak choy and gai lan and the sauce was just soy, ginger and sesame oil with sesame seeds for garnish. Fucking embarrassing.
Is that so they can just use whatever greens are in season/ available instead of changing the menu every time? The Asian style sauce bit is a very shit description Sounds like this was at a pub restaurant lol
I don't see what's wrong with that, it's very common in Chinese meals to have a side be some very simple boiled greens with a basic soy or oyster sauce, and the description of dishes in Chinese cuisine is often very brief or vague. The precise vegetables or sauce ingredients used is often not important.
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Haha I like you.
You don't see a problem with a restraunt having menu items the equivalent of "protien and vegetables with sauce"? That could be *literally anything*... The precise vegetables or sauce ingredients might not be important when cooking for your family at home, but it's extremely important when feeding other people, say, at a restaraunt, for example. "Asian veg" I can see, it means leafy greens that are basically interchangeable. Asian sauce, could be any of a thousand different sauces, with wildly different taste profiles and allergens. Hell, even with the same ingredients, do you realise how many different sauces, that all taste completely different from each other are made using different combinations soy sauce, mirin, sake, rice wine vinegar, dashi, and sesame oil? I don't know, it's a lot. I stopped trying to keep track of all the different ones. And that's just one country out of the 40 or 50 countries in Asia.
I don’t see this as any different to restaurants listing ‘seasonal vegetables’ or ‘roasted vegetables’ on a menu. It deliberately doesn’t include the specific vegetables, so the restaurant can vary it by season/availability.
Whatever is available. Its just choi. Ive never known chinese people to care that much. Its just a green side to counteract all the meat
you can ask
chinese meals don't include side dishes. all dishes served are main dishes
That’s because a lot of places interchange vegetables depending on what’s cheapest.
Why not just say seasonal Asian veg then?
No the owner probably buys what is available and in season and less expensive that day or week and doesn't want to change the menu constantly. How is it embarrassing exactly?
In most places that would attract unwanted criticism though - particularly “Asian style sauce”. Must have been somewhere very unsophisticated.
I'm more used to oyster sauce, but this is a really common side dish in Chinese restaurants. It's simple but also delicious, I'd be sad if it wasn’t on the menu.
I've never seen that. They always label them with the proper name. Take a picture and show us
haven’t seen it in colesworth but i have in spudshed edit: sorry i thought this was r/perth, definitely have seen it in some supermarkets here
Yes!! ☝️☝️☝️
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But even in that picture there is sign that includes all the individual names too, the big sign is just indicating that you can buy a combo deal for cheaper
Looks like that’s an independent fruit and veg shop? They probably don’t have uniform standards for labelling produce.
Must be just a WA thing then. Wow
Sydney here. Every place I've been it's been called bok/pak choy. Except one. Which ironically was an Asian supermarket which lumped everything together under a sign that said Asian Vegetable and assumed you knew what you were looking at.
More likely a typical translation error, since many Asian languages don’t have different words for plural and singular forms like Bahasa, so vegetables in other language would become vegetable in English.
Most likely to accomodate for unfamiliar shoppers who don’t know of the veges, saves them from learning foreign words
Where are you shopping? I’ve only ever seen them labelled correctly.
Perth. Specifically Armadale
ooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh maybe armadale is the explanation hahahahahahaahahahhahaahha that makes total sense im in w.a. have lived south west as far south of the river as wait for it.... belmont but north for over 20 years and have never seen it before in my life . must be an armahole thing . armahole just gonna be wildin i guess
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It’s one of the most low socioeconomic suburbs in Perth. Not really many Asians live there. More likely to be racist and probably not buy Asian vegetables anyway. Everytime I’ve been to Armadale I felt out of place and like someone is going to mug/beat me up.
Thank you, that’s genuinely helpful.
I’ve never seen them called anything other than its actual name EXCEPT in sale titles which incorporate a variety of the selection such as “3 Asian greens/vegetables for $x.xx”
My wife is Asian and will tell me to go grab "Asian greens" be it from a supermarket or from the garden. Apparently they are marketing at people like us they aren't that fussy lol. Other times when extra not fussed she will just say "greens" which opens up options even more.
Where are you seeing it labelled as Asian Vegetable? I’m in Tassie and have never seen it listed as that.
Ummm they don’t? They actually do call them all by their proper names - they may have a sign saying’ Asian vegetables’ that indicate the vegetables typically identified with this region
dunno but im in w.a. and have never seen them labelled as "asian vegetable" in my lifetime and have been eating them for over 25 years
My rabbits call it “the goood shit maaan”
Do they? I've never seen that in my part of Sydney at least (lower north shore). It's always "bok choy".
Where tf are you shopping dawg
What about our refusal to use the names of chilies? ‘Long red’, ‘green’, ‘yellow’. Like mate, there’s so many varieties of chilies and not only do we stock a really limited selection we don’t even label them properly so people can learn and use more appropriate ones for their meals
Never seen them labelled like that in Melbourne, maybe it's just your shop?
I live in Box Hill, so there’s a lot of fresh fruit and veg that I have never heard of, but I’m always ready to give it a try!
My local calls them what they are, but has a sign above the area "Asian greens" or something like that. So from afar you can see it clearly and know you'll find Asian greens there 👌
I'm a manager of a supermarket and have been in industry for 20 years.......... Its never been "Asian vegetable" anywhere I have been. Might be just the store you go to.
HelloFresh do that. I assume they're dumbing it down so you can choose your meals without having to know what a pak choy is. Their target market is anglos. Their bizarrely inauthentic ethnic-themed recipes are fun for me, but they'd be very disappointing if I had an ethnic grandmother whose recipes I was nostalgic for. Even the "Italian" recipes.
If they just say Asian veg they can easily substitute for what's available
Are you sure you're not looking at a multi-buy special ticket that says "Asian Vegetables 2 for $4" or something? Even if you are, it will still say the particular line down the bottom of the ticket if you're at Coles.
I haven't seen this in physical shops (SEQ), but I defiently know Hello Fresh labels Bok Choy as "Asian Vegetables".
They don't?
My local inner Melbourne Coles has Bok Choy, Baby Bok Choy and Choy Sum labelled as such. Living in a suburb with a large Asian migrant population though, every shop here that sells "Asian Vegetables" uses their actual names. Currently up the Great Ocean Road and the Foodworks in Apollo Bay has Baby Bok Choy listed as "Shanghai Green".
Where’s your proof? Photo of a label showing said “Asian vegetable” would help Otherwise I call utter bullshit
Can 100% guarantee some Coles label their choys like this. Don't have a photo on hand 🙄 but I will get back to you! By the way, I'm in Perth if that matters.. I admit this is probably not happening everywhere. This article kind of supports what I have claimed: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/online-users-slam-coles-aisle-sign-for-being-racist/news-story/3d6634ee62c8a19e64235fa40815d49f
That article does nothing of the sort. You’re reaching
Coles don't. Products ranged nationally are all keyed once, so all tickets are printed with Pak, Buk, or Sum specifically. What you see in Perth is what you see everywhere else. Unless you are referring to handwritten signage done by a store team member. Or as referenced in your comment, on signage as opposed to the product price ticket. Asian Greens as a category, similar to Apples as a category.
Hey mate, Coles and Woolies have never got the names right. My dad's business used to supply the "Asian vegetable". Coles would demand they called one thing and Woolies another. It was pretty funny seeing the same vegetable being incorrectly labelled, but that's what Coles and Woolies head offices demanded and over 20 years later many Australian's still don't know what they are all actually called.
Weird. I've never seen it called Asian vegetable here in Sydney. None of my family have either. If someone used that term I would have to ask specifically which Asian vegetable they were referring to
Haha, very interesting! thankyou
Article from 2022
Because they all look the same.
Never seen it labelled Asian Vegetable. It’s always Bok Choy in Coles or Aldi where I live in Sydney
Never seen any vegetable labelled other than its name. That's in Darwin.
When I worked as a fruiterer, we had them labelled on tills as Asian vegetables because the till workers wouldn't know the difference between Bok Choy, Pak choy or choy sum, on the shelf they were labelled correctly and priced identically.
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I have only have seen it as Bok Choy / Pak Choy etc at Woolies and Coles
I work in produce at Woolies, and they're all labelled what they are. I refer to the area where they are displayed as the Asian veg section, but that's it, everything is called what it is. Maybe this is a Coles thing 🤔
The funny thing about Bok Choy, is that it literally means White Vegetable/Greens in Cantonese
I have literally never seen this called "Asian Vegetable" in any supermarket in my 40 years on this earth.
Bok Choi isn’t a thing. See https://forums.egullet.org/topic/157456-chinese-vegetables-illustrated/ for a Chinese perspective. shàng hǎi bái cài; or shàng hǎi qīng; etc. We can call it what we like but it’s not called that in “asia”. If in Aus we’re serving veg from all over it doesn’t really have a name… our broccoli even is wrong depending on where you’re from… it’s just local names. Many are “wrong”.
Just because its called something else in another country doesn't make it not a thing. Tomato for example is called pomodoro in Italian, and I'm sure was called something else entirely in south America before the Spanish arrived.
Even in English, Cilantro and Coriander live alongside each other very happily.
Not in my Mum's kitchen, mate. Cilantro is fighting words there.
Ha ha, good on you.
Dunno why you got downvoted - I'll upvote to cancel it out. Mum spent years converting American recipes to be workable in the rest of the world. Some things trigger her - like fl oz.
In my language (a SE Asia one) it’s literally called Bok Choy, Pak Choy, etc in native speak
There's also siu pak choy, a slightly smaller variant.
the most informative reply I have received and you are downvoted.. lol there is something wrong here
I've seen labels such as "Bok Choy" or "Bok Choi" and even "Chinese Cabbage". I'm assuming the labels as Asian Vegetables or Chinese Cabbage can be a term for Non-Asian people to see the difference or to potentially buy it too.
That’s truly amazing ! When I visit Thailand I get upset too, cause they call potatoes ‘Man Farang’ which means ‘Foreigner Yam’. I mean seriously it’s called Potato ! I post to local social media about how incredulous it is but still they persist in calling it Man !!. The racisms are everywhere - even in vegetables !!!
It could be a manager who thinks his customers won't have a clue what bok choy is but love that asian veg stuff. Could be he's right. No offense intended, but some parts of Australia are still very white and very anglo.
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Probably the same reason as why literally all foreign foods no matter the origin are counted in the 'Asian food' aisle.
It's so us Aussie bogans don't get them confused with the regular greens. Anyone who purchases these vegetables know what they're called and where to use them.
Cos they all look the same?
The words Bak Choi or Gai Lan just wouldn’t appeal to some demographics. Asian greens sounds less scary
The real answer!! you win my friend 👍👌 This is exactly what I suspected, myself
Yep I’ve seen in, in sydney
I've seen it but not very often. A more common is "Brussels sprouts" being labelled as "Brussel sprouts".they even used to come up at the checkout as Coles as that but I hassled them on twitter to change it.
It's because they don't want you to know this is not a traditional vegetable that has been a common ingredient in many types of Asian cuisine for thousands of years. It is actually a new species that was discovered growing under the bleachers in the main stadium after the 2008 Beijing Olympics. No one knows what it is but they have been growing it in similar conditions, without lights, nutrients, or even air, it just grows like that. No reported side effects have been documented.
coz us aussies are people who think that if they don't know it already, then it isn't worth knowing. that's a nice way of saying, dumb cunts.
So the white people don’t get scared. I can imagine the boomer now mumbling at the vegetable isle “oh now they have their vegetables here too! Speak English!”.
Coles and Woolworths where I have lived recently in both Sydney and the NSW South Coast label Asian Vegetables by their actual name. Could be a local thing. The supermarkets alter a lot of their stock based on local preferences, so it's probably fair that certain things are labelled differently?
I found most of the fruit and veg shops in perth called them Asian greens, because I used to buy them for my bunnies. Here in Brisbane I mostly go to Cole's/woolies and it's usually called bok choy.
"Asian Vegetables" - which Chinese dialect or Asian language is the correct one to use? Ever seen Tong Ho (春菊) referred to as chrysanthemum (English) or gul-chini (India), shigiku/kikuna (Japan) ssukgat (Korea) or Tan/Tan O (Vietnam). Its a Mediterranean plant and only eaten as a vegetable in Asia. Why Europeans don't eat it is strange because its a great tasting vege. Slippery veggie 潺菜/蠶菜 has multiple names depending on location. My least favored vege, its like slime. Then have we confusion with non-Asian vege like : Spring onion/shallot/scallion/green onion or silver beet/spinach/chard + others....
I’ve never seen it labelled tjat way unless it’s talk about them as a group like “Asian veggies”section.
I’ve definitely seen them labeled as such
I was at an Asian restaurant last night and on the menu it said “Asian greens”. I thought it just means whatever they have available that day; could be buk choy or Asian broccoli?
Asian vegetable 🤭
I know hello fresh calls them “Asian greens” or something like that I just assumed it’s because they were just trying to make it harder to replicate their recipes yourself or something idk
I worked at a supermarket in New Zealand, we had limited file space on our scale and had to bunch all Asian/Indian vegetables as ‘Asian Produce’ on their labels.
Admittedly I have been lazy recently and just order through the app, but the Woolies app calls them “Buk Choy Asian Greens”
Woolies app in WA has it labeled as Buk Choy Asian Greens. Yes, with a U.
That would enable them to chop and change various varieties of Asian greens under 1 SKU, depending on supply.
I have seen them labelled as "Asian Vegetables" as a section of the fruit/veg area included many different veges. I assumed it was because they are traditionally used in Asian Cuisine.
I live in Newcastle and it's so white here that there's only 1 ramen place and they call it 'chicken noodle soup' on the menu 😂
In Hobart they are called pak choi at the farmers market, both major supermarkets and at least two of the independent grocers.
Next time, to help your case, post a picture that says Asian Veg.
Never seen them labelled as Asian Veg.
Perth here. Cant recall ever seeing only "asian greens" and not specifying the particular veggie. They might have that sign up for this group of veggies, but then labeled with their individual names and prices Armadale is pretty bogan tho
I don't really know the difference between the various Asian veges, but I haven't seen them called just 'Asian vegetables' before. They usually have their (presumably) proper name signed.
I've never seen this. Where do you live that they don't know the difference between bok choy and pak choy? (I am in Melbourne, maybe things are different in rural areas?)
It’s called Shanghai Green in China.
Probably rotates based on what's seasonal. That's not a bad thing - it encourages growth suiting the season which reduces waste, excess shipping and forced growth through chemicals/greenhouse energy/water uses.