My friend and I went to Asian store in Pinellas Park, Florida and I found they do have water spinach or swamp cabbage. My friend told me that she knew an Asian store that they sell kangkong and one day I did urge her to buy some food in that store. When I was living in Philippines, I tried to find a kangkong in the vegetable market and sometimes, I cannot find it and some Filipino likes to eat kangkong like me. I am glad that I found kangkong in Asian store.

Last night, I was hungry as I did eat my dinner early, so, I had decided to fix something to eat. Even though it was almost 11:00 pm, I cooked the kangkong that I bought in Asian store. You can see the picture of water spinach below that I cooked last night which I did sautéed and put minced garlic and onions and, it is tasty and nutritious (hmmm).


The common names that I would like to share with you guys that I found in Wikipedia which includes water spinach, swamp cabbage, water convolvulus, water morning-glory, kangkung (Indonesian, Malay), kangkong (Tagalog), eng chai (Hokkian), tangkong (Cebuano), kang kung (Sinhalese), trawkoon ( Khmer: ត្រកូន), pak boong (in Thai: ผักบุ้ง) (Thai), rau muống (Vietnamese), kongxincai (Chinese: 空心菜; pinyin: kōngxīncài; literally "hollow heart vegetable"), home sum choy ( Hakka), and ong choy or tung choi (Cantonese pronunciation of 蕹菜, ngônkcôi; pinyin: wéngcài).

The vegetable is a common ingredient in Southeast Asian dishes. In Singapore, Indonesia and Penang, the leaves are usually stir fried with chile pepper, garlic, ginger, dried shrimp paste (belacan/terasi) and other spices. In Penang and Ipoh, it is cooked with cuttlefish and a sweet and spicy sauce. During the Japanese Occupation of Singapore in World War II, the vegetable grew remarkably well and easily in many areas, and become a popular wartime crop.

credits of common names of water spinach: Wikipedia