"Victor Sack" wrote
> cshenk wrote:

>> Hey, is there a german word for Daikon? We used 'Daikon' as it was
>> Japanese
>> for it. When I told her it was a radish-horseradish varient she tried to
>> make a horseradish dish and was not amused ;-) She later used it much
>> like
>> a parsnip to great effect. (Never did see parsnips in Sasebo that i can
>> recall).
>
> It is indeed just "Daikon" or "Daikon-Rettich". It is rare to find it
> in run-of-the-mill groceries or markets. In Asian groceries, they would
> usually know what it is. Substituting horseradish would not usually be
> amusing, indeed! :-)

Heheh it was strange! But her english when she first got there was just a
few words (she and her husband had been speaking german at home). She
learned really fast with 'immersion training' but some things we never
swapped off the Japanese names, often because I didnt know an english name
for them.

Like, she's still more used to 'Bangus' than 'milkfish' because thats what I
called it.