Westerners know the loofah as a bathroom accessory, a natural sponge for scrubbing and cleaning. To the Chinese, however, it offers both food and functionality. The loofah grows fast and in spring it ...

There aren't too many foods that are equally at home in a stir-fry or a shower caddy. But on a trip to New York City last week, I spotted an ingredient on a Chinese restaurant menu that I would ...

Over 2,000 years ago, in a secluded bath chamber along the banks of the Nile, Queen Cleopatra of Egypt may have reached for an unlikely luxury: a fibrous, spongelike gourd – the loofah. This porous ...

May Lee and Winmas Yu will share with you how to use loofah to make a nutritious soup.

Loofah soup with tofu, bean curd skin and pork ribs [Photo provided to China Daily] Loofah is also a lucrative commercial crop. In our Yunnan home, the local market often offers loofah products that ...