Finding Dan Dan Noodles BF: Ya Cai Preserved Mustard
Greens

Sometimes things are right under your nose and you don?t know it. For the dan dan noodle recipe that I wrote about in the Wall Street Journal last week, I need a specific seasoning ingredient ? Chinese preserved mustard greens, called ya cai (?yaah tsai?). I went to my Chinese market and perused the dried vegetable and canned vegetable section. Nothing. I?d read about the ingredient in cookbooks but none of them told me how to find the stuff ? where it may be located or how it?s packaged. Then, while I was in the refrigerated section looking at tofu (what else) and noodles (for the recipe), I turned around and saw a bunch of boxes filled with index-card size packages of something. Remembering that...

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