Why don't the Chinese use more beans in their cooking?

[Floogeldy]

Or am I just unsophisticated?

[flamingyouth]

1. Never heard of Chinese long beans?

They're sometimes referred to as yard-long beans.

[Osamasux]

2. Red beans and black beans.

Red in soups and buns. Black in sauces.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. Green beans with ground pork and hot peppers in Sichuan cuisine

:7

[bo44]

4. mungo bean sprouts are the bomb as well

Chinese green beans and pork in black bean sauce.

[Little Wing]

5. What did you think tofu was, exactly?

[KittyWampus]

6. tofu is beans