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  makheua muang yao (purple aubergines)

 

Hong Kong

Makheua muang yao are in fact elongated purple eggplants, which are also called purple aubergines, and is listed —together with other varieties of both rounded (fig.) and elongated (fig.) types— under the same botanical name, regardless of size and colour.

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