Slimy Chinese Spinach

I went to the Farmer's Market yesterday, and got a bunch of produce.  I wanted some greens, but I didn't see any that looked good.  I went to this one vegetable stand, and I saw this plant that had beautiful flat leaves.  I asked the girl behind the table what it was.  She told me, "It is Chinese spinach." 
"Does it taste like spinach?" I ask.
"yeah, just saute it.  What are you going to do with it?" she responses with a inquisitive look on her face.  Her  eyes were wide and her mouth was open with the slightest hint of a smile.  I did notice that her teeth were brown on top; it reminded me off my yellow teeth when I was teenager.

I smiled at her told her in a matter of fact tone, as if it is obvious, doesn't she know I'm on a juice fast, "I'm going to juice it."

The girls eyes almost popped out of her head.  "Juice it," she said. 

"Yes, juice it." I replied as I handed her two dollars. 

The girl was giving me a sign.  If only  I had read the road map of her face a lot better, I would have known that juicing Chinese spinach is not a good idea.

However, I did listen to my inner voice earlier today when it told me to taste the Chinese spinach before I added it to my juice.  It did taste like spinach, but it produced a fair amount of slime in my mouth as I chewed it (yes, I did swallow).

I decided to juice a bit of it to see if it had a thick slimy quality.  OMG, when I put the Chinese spinach in the juicer, it started to come out like long, strings, of wet, sticky greenness.  It looked like a giant bugger entered my juicer.  I immediately stopped juicing. 

I had to clean every bit of the juicer of this sticky, yucky, mess that seemed to plaster itself against any surface.  It was like touching a raw egg, but 20 times worse.   I had scrub the fluid of Chinese spinach off, and it was not going away easy.