A New-to-Me Onion

[Shel_B]

While perusing the bins and the shelves this morning at the Tokyo Fish Market in Berkeley, where groceries and produce are sold alongside the fish, a bin with a vaiety of unknown-to-me Japanese onions caught my attention.  I'd not seen them before, but it's not often that I look through the produce section of this store.

 

I grabbed a package of Negi onions. There are several varieties of these onions, and I believe these are the  Naganegi variety. There's a page that describes these onions, but have only quickly scanned it, perhaps read more tonight: https://sudachirecipes.com/negi/#Types_of_Negi_Used_in_Japan

 

The plan for this weekend is to make Shoyu Chicken, and perhaps these onions will be used.

 

 

 

 

[liuzhou]

They're usually called Welsh onions in English. Allium fistulosum- and native to China. Negi (ネギ) just means 'green onion'. Naganegi (長葱) means ' long onion'.

 

Very common here, all over Asia and in the UK. Probably everywhere. 

Edited 2 hours ago by liuzhou (log)