To make suan cai, my grandma places bunches of Chinese cabbage outside and allows them to dry under the sun. She then puts the cabbage in a huge pot, mixes it with salt and leaves it to ferment ...

Beef noodle soup, with brisket, bok choy and Taiwanese pickles. (Betty Hallock / Los Angeles Times ) 5 / 10. ... braised beef brisket, bok choy and suan cai (pickled mustard greens).

I ate this wonderfully substantial and fragrant dish, suan cai rou lamian, at Noodle Kingdom in Melbourne’s Box Hill. It’s made with the intriguing pickled vegetable xue cai, also called xue li hong.