Eating gow choy, better than one gow choy
A joke my mother used to chuckle over came back to me. In the story a young lady is asked to prove her cooking skills by making ten dishes. So she took some Chinese chives and fried them with an egg satisfying the condition. Chinese chives are called gow choy 韭菜 which is a homophone for 九菜 nine vegetables.
You are most likely to find 韭菜 at yum cha as gow choy go, fried cake with small shrimp and radish.
