Bok choy and long beans grew in the backyard.
The long beans got nixed early -- bean salads and street fairs don't mix.
They came with sesame-dotted Chinese long beans, grilled eggplant and white rice.
I chose green beans (you could also use wax beans, haricots verts or long beans).
The successful version matched sweet juicy meat with sour cherry sauce and lovely Chinese long beans.
Eggplant, long beans, cabbage and kidney beans appear frequently, in various guises — again, sometimes in combination with fish.
My mum used to have a stall selling nasi lemak with anchovy sambal and long beans in a curry sauce.
The menu of small plates includes dumplings that change daily, veggies such as Szechuan long beans, and barbecued pig tails.
Bitter melons, cilantro, Asian long beans, Thai peppers, jute leaves, Thai eggplants, bitter balls (African eggplant), sweet potato leaves.
A less familiar colonial dish is Surinamese roti, a pancake served with chicken, lobster, Surinamese long beans and potato curry.
Educational annotations explain the plantings, which range from sweet corn to exotic crops like Chinese long beans and stevia.
