Chinese pickle is a small yellow fruit that is shaped like a cucumber. It has a crisp texture, and a mild sweet flavor. Typically it is preserved in honey and spices and sometimes soy sauce. Primarily used as a condiment. Also known as tea melon, sweet tea pickle and pickle.
Other Chinese pickles[]
Chinese pickles includes a number of different preserved vegetables, namely:
- Chung choy
- preserved Sichuan mustard greens
- preserved Sichuan kohlrabi
- preserved turnip root
- snow pickle (also called "red-in-snow")
- winter pickle (salted cabbage)
- Zha cai