Green beans

Not only are the fruit choices limited here in Michigan, but the vegetable choices are pretty boring too. Part of the reason is also because Ping is kinda picky and does not like the western vegetables like rhubarb, artichoke, olive, squash, and purple cabbage.

That limits Ping's vegetable choices to ----

broccoli - Ping's favorite! It's pretty easy to just stir-fry with anything too.
carrots - Ping don't know a whole lot of recipe for so usually Ping just steam it and snack on it, frozen mixed vegetables (combination of carrots, peas and corn) - usually when Ping eats instant noodles
corn - pretty cheap over the summer and is pretty good with a brush of butter
tomatoes - they taste a whole lot better here and Ping loves cherry tomatoes. Would even be better if they have 'sui boey' hoon here (remember how the ones at Carrefour are sold with a small pack of the sui boey hoon? Love em!)
brussel sprouts - don't know any recipe for it so Ping just add it to instant noodles too. Surprisingly, when mummy used to cook them on Sundays, Ping hated it!..hehe..
taugeh - once in a while, Ping would get them from Oriental Market but sometimes Ping is too lazy to peel off the tails so it's not very often that Ping gets them although Ping loves 'taugeh char kiam hu'...plus, there's no good kiam hu here either.
lettuce - Ping use them when making sandwich
ka tan lin liak - also known as okra or lady's fingers. The name in Hokkien probably came from kacang bendi but the pronunciation changed over time..probably?? It's not very popular here either but there are frozen imported ones that are very small. Unfortunately, ah mah decided not to plant them at home anymore..ish!
cauliflower - it's pretty common here too but Ping prefers broccoli to cauliflower so Ping rarely gets them. In fact, the last time Ping had cauliflower was when tiptup cooked dinner for us after our NYC trip!

Whenever Ping craves for 'or kui tau', also known as French beans, Ping would get green beans instead. They are pretty cheap here too; between 99cents to USD1.29 a lb. They don't taste quite like or kui tau but close enough to make Ping happy for a while. Hehe.. Ping's favorite way to cook them...stir-fry with shrimp! Sometimes when Ping is more adventurous, Ping would make green curry with it..like the ones they sell at nasi kandar stalls in Penang or the nasi lemak stall at one of the kopi tiam at Sunway Mentari.
Here's the homecook meal Ping had at tt and dk's place. Hehe..Ping just had to sit down and wait for dinner. Tt and dk did all the cooking and they were great! Especially since Ping just had 7 weeks of all American food, the homecook food was definitely a great meal!

The one on the top is beef stir-fry with button mushroom and baby corn. Don't know with what sauce but it was good! The bottom one is stir-fry cauliflower and carrots.

Spinach is another one of Ping's favorite here but with the recent E. coli outbreak where the source is spinach, it was all cleared from the shelves. It was distributed again early this week now that they have found the source but Ping hasn't gone back to the grocery stores since then. It is almost like kangkung. Ping likes to use it to stir-fry with belacan or hae bee or even just eat them raw with soy beans and vinagrette. Other than spinach, there's not much leafy vegetables here like 'huan chu ti' or 'chai sim' or 'tau miu' and many others.