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Vegetable or fruit preserve, made of spring onions, cabbage, coconut, apple, pear, etc. in vinegar and salt (probably from Malaya).
Achares are sold as pickled spring onions, pieces of white cabbage, ginger, star fruit, pear, pineapple, coconut, etc. They are sold in achar shops or by hawkers. The Chinese do not eat achares as an acompaniment but as an appetiser before a meal or simply as a snack at any time of day. The Macaenses also like them as an appetiser before a Chinese meal and children buy them, generally without their mothers’ knowledge, from the hawkers, and eat them in the street with the aid of a toothpick. (GNB)

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