From pan mee at breakfast to stir-fries at dinner, the vegetable known as “mani cai” or “sayur manis” and “cekur manis” is a welcome sight on many dining tables.
That said, one claim has been repeated often since the 1990s – that eating raw “sayur manis” or sauropus androgynus to use its scientific name – can destroy the lungs of those eating it.
