Hello everyone!

Some time ago I had the absolute pleasure of eating a glorious stir fry with gravy from an Asian restaurant. I can't be any more specific about the restaurant itself because it happened during a business trip out of town and we were just handed the food, all I know it was an Asian dish because I selected the "Asian meal" option for myself.

Anyway, it was super delicious as I mentioned, a really fun flavor, couldn't really tell exactly what it is, but I was pretty sure I smelled and tasted celery, specifically celery root. There were even slices of some vegetable which at the time I was sure it was celery root because of the smell, taste, and appearance. I work a lot with celery root in my cuisine and I took the slight differences in the smell and taste as just the result of a bath in the spicy gracy. I didn't see any celery sticks, so I don't thing they were responsible for the smells and flavors.

Recently I wanted to look up some recipes for stir fry/gravy, Asian style, that includes celery root, but to my surprise, I found almost nothing, definitely nothing that would at least resemble whatever I've eaten back then.

My question is this, are celery root slices, aka celeriac slices, used in Asian cuisine that way, or did I confuse my good friend celery root with some other vegetable? Is there any chance that it's just a "europeanization" of an Asian dish and someone who doesn't really know what they're doing had the brilliant albeit counter-intuitive idea to add celeriac to the usual set of veggies?

Thanks!

Cheers!