It comes in a small bowl, served along with rice, boiled Chinese watercress, raw long beans and various other vegetables.

If you are using the Chinese long beans, trim the ends and cut them into 3-inch segments.

Put in the shallots, garlic, ginger, cloud ears and long beans.

Other days there may be a slice or two of lotus root and a few wrinkly long beans.

The fruits look like flat, long and thin green beans.

Add the broccoli and the drained long beans and cook about 15 seconds, stirring.

Add the long beans and stir to coat.

Other ingredients that may be present include grape tomato, shredded green or long beans, peanuts, and smoked fish.

Add shallots, garlic, ginger, cloud ears and long or green beans.

They came with sesame-dotted Chinese long beans, grilled eggplant and white rice.