chai@utflis.UUCP (Henry Chai) (10/31/85)
In article <832@nmtvax.UUCP> shipman@nmtvax.UUCP writes: >[...] >CAVEATS: You will need a few ingredients not available in most markets: >tree ears, [...] >-- >John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/ucbvax!unmvax!nmtvax!shipman Before anyone rush out to oriental grocery stores for those tree ears, lemme tell you what they are: black fungus. We chinese call any edible fungus (besides mushrooms) "ears" ('coz they LOOK like ears that's why!) "Tree ears" is a too literate translation; I had to think about for a minute before I realize what it refers too. By the way it's pronounced "moog ee" in Cantonese, or "moo err" in Mandarin (?) -- Henry Chai, just a humble student at the Faculty of Library and Information Science, U of Toronto {watmath,ihnp4,allegra}!utzoo!utflis!chai