Fragrant Knives Blog
Cleaver, Chopper, Caidao, Choidou, Chūka Bōchō, Chef Knife?
You may see other articles refer to Chinese chef’s knives - 菜刀 (pronounced caidao/choidou in mandarin and cantonese respectively) - as Chinese cleavers. Here at Fragrant Knives, we feel that the association of the word ‘cleaver’ with meat cleavers in English leads...