gouqizi

Goji berries, a.k.a. gouqizi or Chinese wolfberries

Posted by Fuchsia on January 20, 2009
Ingredients, Unusual delicacies / 1 Comment

I’m quoted in Wednesday’s Boston Globe, on the culinary uses of trendy ‘superfood’ goji berries, otherwise known as 枸  杞  子  , gouqizi, or Chinese wolfberries.

The picture on the right is of the berries in an eight-treasure rice (babaofan), which I came across in Liuyang, Hunan:

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