BEEF, SNAKE BEANS & TIANJIN PRESERVED VEGETABLES

Are you familiar with Tianjin preserved vegetables? If you speak Mandarin you might know them as 天津冬菜. I don't speak Manadarin, so the characters here could just as easily mean 'Blow fish dancing aunt' or 'happy disco giraffe' (which is the sort of thing you sometimes see printed on t-shirts worn by teenage girls from Japan). Tianjin preserved vegetable is a variety of cabbage that has been preserved in salt. The brand I have comes in a squat brown crock.

BEEF, SNAKE BEANS & TIANJIN PRESERVED VEGETABLES