Hi Michael,
Yes both of them get their names from their hometown, the Fengyuan aubergine is a pretty new release (around 2006), I found some extra info of it by searching under "egg plant fengyuan".
I must say aubergine growing is pretty new for me. last year I grew the Turkish orange aubergine ,very attactive compact plant with lots of orange colour fruit but taste horribly bitter, yet it was not advertise as having bitter taste
.
This year trying Pintung and Baby Rossana. (east meet west
and hoping for better result.
I have been to Taipei (only once) during my teenage time, it's a nice modern city (not overly clean like Singapore). Do you speak Mandarin ?
If you ever go back there again, try their special bitter gourd. It has all the goodness of usual bitter gourd but it taste sweet and very less bitterness ,that is good news
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PS. I also grow lots of oriental vegetables (mainly leafy veggie), love them in stir fry
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