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Fa Cai which is also known as black moss, hair weeds; hair moss; Nostoc flagelliforme, a cyanobacterium (type of photosynthetic bacterium) used as a vegetable in Chinese cuisine which, when cooked, resembles black human hair.
In Hongkong, Black moss is widely eaten during Chinese New Year, mainly because its Chinese name, Fa cai, is homonymous with "prosperity” in Cantonese and Mandarin.
Fa refers to hair and Cài means vegetable, greens in Chinese.
Fa Cai is usually eaten during the Chinese New Year season because its name sounds like the Mandarin wor F?cái which means "get rich, make a fortune, make a pile, coin money, earn good money”
In Cantonese Fa Cai is known as Fat Choy.
Personal Note: I encountered this Chinese food while watching a Television Show in Germany entitled Food Hunter hosted by Mark Brownstein who is a pioneer: a latter-day explorer, who scours remote corners of the world in pursuit of culinary curiosities.
Fa'i is the Samoan term for "Banana". In Samoa, there are many varieties of bananas existing, but all have the same characteristics and all are edible. The Samoan prefers to cut the
Fabada refers to a Filipino food, particularly from Luzon Province made of kidney beans, pork pata (knuckles which is chopped in serving portions), chorizo bilbao, onions, tomatoes spiced with bay leaf, sage, oregano, thyme amd salt and paper. Fabada is cooked until the pork knuckles (Pata) is tender. Cooked Pata meat may be removed from the bone, cut into cubes and the bones is discarded.
Deutsch: Fasan, Español: Faisán, Português: Faisão, Français: Faisan, Italiano: Fagiano
Fagiano in the food context is the Italian term for pheasant, a widely recognized game bird that is edible and consumed in many European cuisines, particularly during the autumn and winter hunting seasons. It is prized for its lean, dark, and flavorful meat which is more robust than chicken but generally milder than other game birds like grouse.
Fagiano is pronounced "fah-jah-noh"