Bring the spring in, I say, bring it in! We've been experimenting with spring onions 珠蔥 also known as green onions or scallions, trying to find a way to have this essential to Chinese cuisine flavoring unit at hand whenever we need it.
I don't know if it's just my luck but, really, almost every time I need spring onions, all the stores are out of it! And if you cook Chinese food, you know as I know that you will always need some spring onion for your dinner dishes, be it a sprinkled garnish, a way to aromatize your oil, or even as the tasty vegetable portion of your stir fry.
Which is why, here in Hong Kong, I have never understood why it is so hard to buy spring onion after a certain time of the day. A shake of the head, a shrug of the shoulders...sorry, no spring onions. Urghh...how devastating to that delectable dish that you have in mind for dinner!
Recently we have discovered a way to easily insure ourselves against the abyss that is the lack of spring onion: we have been growing our own spring onions in a jar!
