What is Zha Cai? How to Cook It? 

Please make more recipes with Zha Cai. I'd love to know other options for using it if I have an excess amount. I love eating noodle soups for breakfast.

YES! Please do more recipes with Zha Cai. If I'm going to look for it on my next trip to the Asian grocer, I'd love different recipes to eat it. The simple homey recipes are the best; I don't need fancy, just delicious. Easy is a bonus, too!

These are called zāsai/ザーサイin Japanese. They are a well loved Chinese pickle here as well. Often they are super salty and sometimes it’s best to soak them in water for a few minutes first to reduce the salt. They are great chopped finely and then added to Chinese congee/rice porridge. Please teach us some other recipes using this versatile pickled vegetable!

I’ve seen these a million times in my local Asian grocery store but never bought them because I didn’t know what they were for! Now I know, I’m going to buy some! Sounds delicious! Thanks, Mandy!

Yes, please more examples! I would love to know about more ingredients too. I recently made 7 treasures congi, and it was amazing, I had never even thought about lotus seeds. Great video as always!

I purchased a small bag of Zha Cai, just to try, now it's a regular item for me. I buy 8 at a time! I like the Zah Cai with woodear mush rooms. My Saturday breakfast is usually a bowl of rice, topped with Zah Cai, 2 fried eggs and a drizzle of sesame oil.

I bought a packet of the big zha cai a few months ago and it has been sitting on my kitchen counter. My mother used to cook soup with it with pork bones and I love it. You have shown a variation of how to use this zha cai and I can't wait to try it! Thanks Mandy!🍜🍜🍜

They are WONDERFUL! We buy LOTS of them - the radish, the mushroom, the mustard greens... Not in the mood for just plain white rice? Mix in a packet - same with stir fries that need JUUUUUUUUST that little extra flavour... soups, even non-Asian STEWS... they're generally (HERE) between 59 cents and $1.09 and SO worth it. Mandy, I would LOVE to see more uses for Zha Cai! I'd also be interested in seeing recipes using the packets of sour mustard root (I use them for SOME things, but really want to expand using them). THANK YOU!

That big zha cai stem my mum used to cut it into cubes and made a chicken soup with it. Sheshhhhh. Perfect chicken soup when you are cold or sick. ❤❤❤

More recipes with this ingredient please. 🙏🏼 We purchase these all the time to use in our hot and sour soup or to when trying to mimic a brothy soup we’ve had at a restaurant with thin pork slices, zha cai, and white pepper. We love the crunchy funk these have.

Hi, Mandy. Minus the meat and adding more vegetables from our garden, this is what we often had for breakfast at my temple in Hubei Province. Watching you make it brought back memories of aroma and taste, and I was transported back to the temple this morning. Thank you.

More recipes with zha cai please

Yes, yes please more recipes using Zha Cai, thank you Mandy.

Yes Mandy, please provide more recipes with Zha Cai. Thanks !

I am so amazed at the Brassica varieties out there. This one is on my bucket list to grow. I did manage to make mei cai/meigan cai over the season and will be enjoying that over the winter. Thank you for teaching us about the uses of this one. It is all so interesting.

Yes please, more zha cai recipes! My local Chinese market has half a dozen varieties and I only have a couple of recipes that use it. It's so cheap & tasty & nutritious and I always think I should use it more.

This looks awesome and I plan to try this. I've been looking for recipes to use the pickled Zha cai. I'd love to see more recipes!! 🥰

Thank you so much for all of your authentic and delicious recipes 😍🥰😛

Happy New Year Mandy! Just watching you eat that hearty-savory-big bowl of noodles was extremely comforting already. 💜

My mom made this for me yesterday! It’s amazingly easy and delicious. Thank you for making these videos

Thank you so much! Fantastic recipe!

Always delicious recipes. Thank you Mindy

Mandy I love your channel. Your videos are educational and useful. I enjoy how informative you are with each recipe without the unnecessary fluff. Thank you so much for your content. Happy new year.

👍👍👍👍 Hi Mandy !! Such good, detailed instructions. Great presentation. Thanks for sharing....Michigan

Happy new year and thank you for the video. Zha cai was the food of my childhood, most commonly just paired with pao fan. So good.

We need more recipes with it!!!!! I only used it for this once and it was delicious

Hello Mandy, yes, please I'll love to see more recipes with it, or maybe how to make it from scratch? Thanks for the vídeo, love your channel!

Simple, delicious and really comforting. Thank you and please share more zha cai recipes.

Yes! Please more recipes; I actually purchased 2 packs and was wondering what to do with them 😊

Yes. More recipes like this please 🙂

This was so helpful. I remember my mother making sauteed pea sprouts and the thing I loved best about the dish was the garlic and the crunchy salty pieces that were also in the dish. I had been looking for this at the Asian grocery for some time now, but always looked at canned vegetables that never turned out. Now I know what to look for, because I saw the packet of zha cai in the vegetable section of the store and I am definitely going to include that with my next sauteed pea sprout dish. Thanks

I loveeee zha cai. Any recipe using it will be awesome!

I made this last night and we LOVED it!!

I would love to see more Zha Cai recipes as well!

Zha cai is one of my favourite Chinese ingredients, I’d love more recipes ❤😊

Great recipe - thank you!

Love your videos. Thanks 😻

Looks delicious, Mandy! Thanks and I will try making this

Yum! Merry Christmas and happy year end Mandy.

I love zha cai and would love to see more recipes using it!

Please make more zha cai recipes! I love it! I'm that person that will eat zha cai out of the pack right on top of rice or noodles. Soooo yummy!

Thank you for sharing this recipe with everyone 👍🏻 they are really good

Love your cooking yes more please

Use in more recipes! I love this stuff so much. Thank you!

The use of pickles in the Chinese cuisine has always been a mystery for me. Now I have an answer thanks to your video. I am very interested in watching more videos on that theme. Thanks for your great work.

Yes, please share more recipes and ideas of how to use Zia cai

Yes, please show us some easy recipes using the Zha Chi. I keep trying to use it, and I keep failing.

Thank you so much for all your information, stories, and recipes. You have such a wonderful light shining through you. You are a Joy to watch and listen to. I feel I am watching a dear friend explaining the dishes to me. 😄 please I would love to learn more about the pickled vegetable, and any other recipes too. 😀thank you once again.

More Zha Cai recipes please!!! I love it and would like to know more ways to use it.

nice and looks very easy to make.

fantastic video and recipe! And yes please, I'd love more videos about zha cai and other pickled ingredients I'm not as familiar with and not very confident about using. A friend bought me some pickled long beans and they sit in my cupboard because I'm too scared to use them. thanks so much Mandy!

I had them when I was in Chongqing the first time and they were sooooooooooo YUMMY! I would love to see you use these more, as well as the other fermented veggies - THANK YOU!

5:05 That was so satisfying. I replay it many times

Hii Mandy. Thank u for the recipe. Plz share more recipe with Ca Zhai. Thanks

Sounds delicious

This soup looks delicious! I have not had this pickle but I have had pickled mustard greens which I love. I must try it!!

Cookware is also fabulous I must say. 😊

Please show more with this!!

I love your videos!

Amazing!

Just here to say I love my wok from you, which I just started using....it sure makes a difference to have a wok!

Yes please. More recipes. I love this veg. 😋. In Cantonese I call it jar choi.

can you make a recipe on 雪菜?? I used to order it a lot back in Hong Kong Cha Chan Tang. 雪菜肉絲米 😍

Zha cai stir fried with pork is one of my favorite dishes! Please consider more recipes, maybe even how to pickle mustard greens at home. 😋

That looks really tasty

I would love more recipes for zha cai!

That wok lid😮 ❤❤❤

Yes please show us more recipes

Zha cai soup is so tasty and comforting

"Hot wok.. cold oil.. food no stick", I learned that years ago watching Martin Yan. this recipe looks great, I can't wait to give it a try.

Thank you!!🤗🥰😋💕💕👍

more recipes please! ❤

Delicious my favorite!11

God bless all the varieties of noodles to sustain our budgeted lives. Never forget, "when pasta was spaghetti". Iykyk. Great food here always. ✌️💌🌻

I love it!

Thank you so much for demonstrating some home style Chinese cooking. It's been hard for me to find them with easy to understand English instructions. With yours, CCD's, and wantanmien's channels, I have been able to sample great home cooking from around China.

To everyone wondering if they should try it, DO IT. I was scared to try it at first bc I can’t handle tons of spicy. These are delicious, not too spicy, crispy and crunchy and salty…yum! I eat it with noodle soups, plain or with rice, etc. it’s so SATISFYING. ❤

Would love to see more of Zha Cai! I used to buy these from large brown crocks, which I believe is how the product was shipped from China. I bought a few of the empty crocks for home decor, and I even found some empty ones waiting for the trashman, after hours. (I live in San Francisco - a GREAT Chinatown!) Sometimes the crocks came wrapped in course jute rope or a bamboo basket weave, I think to help prevent breakage during transport.

I would like more zha cai recipes please. We discovered this amazing vegetable from a restaurant Ma Po Tofu.

I love that for hot and sour rice noodle soup.

Good thanks ❤

Thanks!

I just noticed that you now part your hair on the right and, that you cut your hair! I love your new hairstyle and I can’t believe that it took me this long to notice. Happy New Year Mandy!

i always love mangolian beef and mangolian chicken, orange chicken and more.

More zha Cai pls!

More recipes please!

This looks so easy and so comforting and so nutritious. And you won't be hungry 30 minutes later like you would be after the typical high-carb, low-protein, low-fat American breakfast (of a donut and coffee or a bowl of sugary cereal with low-fat milk). What an absolutely gorgeous breakfast there! Thanks, Mandy, and Happy New Year!

Oh man I really love this stuff, especially when used as part of rou bang/yook bang. It's a quick and dirty way to pep up an otherwise-plain dish without overwhelming it either. I wouldn't mind seeing your take on that.

Would love to see chicken and beef recipes with Zha Cai! This looked good. I love my wok from you (wish the lid fit better).

I hope you can make a mini-series which features different Chinese pickles other than zha cai!

i sometimes eat them as a snack to to my dishes , i mostly love the slight sweeter picled ones with chilli, they delishous. Please show more options

I used to eat a dish using this, in Singapore, when I lived there (in 1998). I only knew 1 store selling that dish, but it was my favorite. I can't even remember what that dish was called now!

More recipes of Zha Cai, please.

Yum! 🎉👏🏼😋

i always love chicken noodles fried and beef noodles fried.

i always love chicken fried rice and beef fried rice.

Please do make more recipes with Zha cai

Can you do more pickle recipes and toppings for rice?

Mindy, Happy New Year!!!!! Could you teach us how to cook SQUID it appears it is very popular item at Asian Grocery. I do not know how to prepare. How to tenderize or season. Thank you, you are the best. Rebecca Chacon.

My mom used to fry the zhachai with lean pork and some dried chillies until dry (no gravy) and slightly darker ......Either way it is a delicious dish.... 👍👍👍