{"id":3382,"date":"2025-02-12T23:17:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T14:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/?p=3382"},"modified":"2026-09-07T18:15:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:15:38","slug":"golden-needle-cabbage","status":"publish","type":"vegtable","link":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/vegtable\/golden-needle-cabbage\/","title":{"rendered":"The benefits of daylily buds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daylily bud is a sweet ingredient, cool in nature, held to settle excess heat and damp trapped in the body, nourish the blood and settle the mind. It uses the buds of the daylily, and the dried form is widely sold. It suits daily care in the damp seasons, or when you feel unsettled, and it is the yellow ingredient familiar from Chinese cooking.<\/p>\n

\"Daylily<\/figure>\n

When daylily buds are in season, the kinds, and how to choose<\/h2>\n

If you want to bring in what daylily buds do, deliciously, knowing the season, the kinds and how to choose makes them easier to use. Their appeal is a vivid yellow and a firm bite, and they are a Chinese ingredient long loved in yakuzen.<\/p>\n

Made from daylily buds, mostly sold dried<\/h3>\n

Daylily bud is the unopened flower bud of the daylily, eaten as food. Fresh buds are in season in summer, roughly June to August, but few reach the shops, and dried daylily bud is widely used as a Chinese ingredient all year. It is also written with characters read koukasai, and China has long used it in yakuzen. The dried form needs only water and keeps, which makes it handy to have in the cupboard. Fresh buds are sometimes found at farm shops in the growing areas in season.<\/p>\n

Dried and fresh daylily buds<\/h3>\n

Daylily bud can be chosen by the form you use.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
kinds<\/th>\nWhat stands out<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Dried daylily bud<\/td>\nThe most common. Rehydrated, for soups and stir-fries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fresh daylily bud<\/td>\nBuds available only in summer. A firm bite. Always cook it<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
For yakuzen soups<\/td>\nAs a yakuzen dried ingredient, paired with jujube and goji berry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n

For ease, dried daylily bud, available any time, is handy. Fresh buds give a taste that belongs to summer alone. Fresh or dried, the rule is never to eat daylily bud raw; always cook it. Paired with jujube and goji berry, it makes a yakuzen soup of fine colour.<\/p>\n

How to choose it and how to rehydrate it<\/h3>\n

When choosing good daylily bud, these points make it easier to tell.<\/p>\n