Chinese Radish and Family Menus

According to Chinese beliefs, the Chinese radish is a detoxifying agent. this lovely root vegetable, known also as daikon is usually cooked with dried cuttlefish in soups.

Chinese radish is very easily grown and in fact many Foochow farmers would grow this as one of their first vegetables whenever they started a garden. It is also a very good vegetable to grow because if the harvest is good, it can be preserved for the rainy season when vegetables are hard to grow.

My mother grew a bit of Chinese radish in our backyard at the Brooke Drive house. And as a teacher in SEDAYA my students and I grew lots of radish for the Husbandry Club, and it was very memorable experience for me.


We ate a lot of salted radish during our childhood in Sibu. And mothers would try to find differet ways of cooking it. My own maternal grandmother loved preserving radish from her garden for the wet season. This was the olden day Foochow way of life - be pro active and store up enough food for the wet season or Landas.

there are several dishes Foochows can cook using radish
a. beef bone soup with Chinese radish and cuttle fish
b. Chinese radish stir fried with minced pork
c. Chinese radish with pork ribs and cuttle fish\
d. Chinese radish with ginger and belly pork
e. Salted radish with eggs
f. Salted radish on top of yam cakes
g. salted radish soup.

the list can go on and on.....