Ummm...yum, yum, ummmm! This is one of the best, most satisfying Chinese vegetable dishes to cook and eat on chilly wind swept autumn's day. Tasty, gorgeously saucy, simple yet richly layered with flavors, tenderly melting in your mouth and warming to the depths of your toes! Best of all the star of the show, the humble looking Napa Cabbage, is very cheap.
One finds mounds of this veg stacked up in tall piles at the wet market, although here in Hong Kong it is usually neglected for other more favored southern vegetables such as the Choi Sum 菜心 or Gai Lan 芥蘭. But don't miss out, pick up a handsome head of cabbage and make this simple classic Northern Chinese comfort dish, Braised Cabbage with Dried Shrimp and Mushroom, or 白菜燉香菇蝦米, perfect for these cool autumn days!
