While wakame can be soaked in both hot and cold water.
It's just that hot water takes a little less time to soak, and the results are the same. It takes about 5 minutes to soak in cold water and about 30 seconds in hot water. It is important to note that dried kohlrabi has a high foaming rate, usually one pound of kohlrabi can soak 15 pounds, so don't put too much at once when foaming kohlrabi.
While wakame is a temperate seaweed that can tolerate high water temperatures, the natural growth of wakame in China is mainly distributed in Zhoushan Islands and Shengsi Island in Zhejiang Province. Wakame is a seaweed plant, 1 year old, yellow-brown color, 1~2 meters high, 50~100 mm wide, leaf margins are pinnate lobes, leaf blade is thinner than the kelp, the shape of the banana leaf fan, but also like the kelp, and so take its name.
What to do with wakame
Cool wakame: wakame into the cold water to soak, and then rinse twice, squeeze out the water to be used, wakame into the sugar, white vinegar, soy sauce, a little salt and stir evenly pot hot a spoonful of oil, into a little ginger, garlic, onion stir-fried flavor, and then into the right amount of dried chili pepper section stir-fried red oil, dripping in the surface, eat when mix well can be.
Kohlrabi egg pancake: kohlrabi soaked, rinsed twice, squeeze the water, chopped spare, kohlrabi in the egg stirred evenly, and then put a little soy sauce flavor, you can also add a little bit of flour, the pan hot oil, put the egg batter, fry until both sides of the caramelized can be.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Wakame