From bok choy and wo sun ( steam lettuce ) to po qwa ( bottle gourd ) and rambutan ( Malaysian soapberry fruit ), produce common to the menus of China, Japan, Southeast Asia and India are stacked high in markets on all sides of the bay.
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""'Dipteronia sinensis " "'is a plant species in the genus " Dipteronia ", endemic to mainland China, and regarded in the soapberry family Sapindaceae " sensu lato " after Angiosperm Phylogeny Group ( APG I 1998, APG II 2003 ) and more recently ( Harrington " et al . " 2005 ) ), or traditionally by several authors in Aceraceae, related to the maples.
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The leaves of the soapberry are alternate, pinnately compound, thick and leathery but deciduous, 8 in . ( 20 cm ) to 15 in . ( 38 cm ) in length, made up of 6 to 20 narrow lanceolate leaflets with smooth margins, long tapered tips, and uneven wedge-shaped bases which are 2 in . to 5 in . ( 5 cm to 13 cm ) long and . 75 in . to 1.5 in . ( 2 cm to cm ) wide.
