What is China Grass?

Question

I heard it's like a special dessert you get in India using milk from a buffalo that's just recently given birth, it's very fatty and creamy. I personally never had it, doesnt sound very appealing but it's supposedly delicious and a rare treat. It's almost a flan custardy type of dessert. Anyone know what I am talking about?

Answer 1

no!!

the china food is very good!!!

Answer 2

Ramie (Boehmeria nivea) is a flowering plant in the nettle family Urticaceae, native to eastern Asia. It is a herbaceous perennial growing to 1 - 2.5 m tall; the leaves are heart-shaped, 7-15 cm long and 6-12 cm broad, and white on the underside with dense small hairs - this gives it a silvery appearance; unlike nettles, the hairs do not sting. The true ramie or China Grass also called Chinese plant or white ramie is the Chinese cultivated plant. A second type, is known as green ramie or rhea and is believed to have originated in the Malay Peninsula. This type has smaller leaves which are green on the underside and it appears to be better suited to tropical conditions

ramie has had limited acceptance for textile use. The fiber's extraction and cleaning are expensive, chiefly because of the several steps—involving scraping, pounding, heating, washing, or exposure to chemicals. Some or all are needed to separate the raw fiber from the adhesive gums or resins in which it is ensheathed. Spinning the fiber is made difficult by its brittle quality and low elasticity; and weaving is complicated by the hairy surface of the yarn, resulting from lack of cohesion between the fibers. The greater utilization of ramie depends upon the development of improved processing methods.

Ramie is used to make such products as industrial sewing thread, packing materials, fishing nets, and filter cloths. It is also made into fabrics for household furnishings (upholstery, canvas) and clothing, frequently in blends with other textile fibers (for instance when used in admixture with wool, shrinkage is reported to be greatly reduced when compared with pure wool.) Shorter fibres and waste are used in paper manufacture.

Ramie is also used as an ornamental plant in eastern Asia.

By- pauline

Answer 3

China grass is another name for agar agar which is a very typical and common gelling agent used in Asia.

I found an recipe for Elaichi China Grass (http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/recipe....

It sounds pretty good...  Milk, agar, cardomon and almonds.

Here's another recipe from an Indian website:  The sounds good too.

http://www.pachakam.com/recipe.asp?id=17...

Milk, sugar, pineapple and vanilla, plus China Grass.

According to the comments, China grass is just another name for agar agar which is a gelatine extracted from seaweed.

Finally, the last website states, "China grass is the name given to a dessert made by dissolving agaragar in sweet milk."

http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/recipe....

Answer 4

I think you are talking about "khervas", that's the custard type dessert you are talking about!  It is a rare and expensive delicacy to get that special buffalo milk.  They call it China Grass.