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Chris Galvin
Posted at:
January 26, 2025
I'm searching for a vietnamese herb called crab claw, known in vietnamese as cang cua, meaning crab claw. Can you get this?Among Vietnamese herbs, this is one of the least known in the West. There is a picture of it at www.nre.vic.gov.au/trade/asiaveg/thes-07.htm. Here is a closer view of the plant: www.peperomia.net/photos/b_pellucida_4.jpg.
Also, am wondering if leaves of green and hot peppers are edible.Yes, they are edible. In fact, there was a move to promote the use of edible leaves of commercial crops that are normally grown for fruits or roots, and both sweet and hot peppers were on a list that I saw posted on the Internet in the mid 1990s. I don't know the current status of that effort.
[Rau Cang Cua] is actually native to the Americas, and I have it growing wild in my yard in shaded places. The old Cajuns here in Louisiana used it in their cooking. My Vietnamese wife introduced me to it some years ago. My wife says that at home in the Mekong Delta when the seeds are black and ready to fall off of the center stem, they are gathered and tossed up on the tile roof, usually mossy, and then grow there very well.