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街市 in words.hk is gaai1 si5. The explanation describes a place: stalls gathered together, selling food for the most part. Fresh meat, vegetables and cooked food such as siu mei are in the same sentence, and so are sundries, hardware, and 元寶蠟燭, the paper ingots and candles used for offerings. The English gloss separates this from a supermarket. The measures are 個 or 間.

The example is 「阿媽去街市買餸」, and 餸 in that sentence is marked sung3. The only near synonym listed is 市場. 燒味 is named inside the explanation, but a search for 燒味 alone returns no entry. The see-also list at the bottom is long, and it includes a car park, a refuse station and a dai pai dong. words.hk notes that this kind of list comes from ToastyNews. It is not part of the definition of 街市.

Few leafy vegetables have entries of their own, and the readings already leave the single characters. 菜心 is also written 菜芯, both coi3 sam1. The explanation says the stem and leaves are green, the flowers small and bright yellow, the taste slightly sweet, and that it is usually stir-fried. The measures are 條 or 樖. 芥蘭 is gaai3 laan2. Its only measure is 樖. The stem is harder than other vegetables, with a little bitterness. The collocation 芥蘭炒牛肉 is marked in full as gaai3 laan2 caau2 ngau4 juk6, so 肉 is juk6. to-jyutping offers laan4, laan2 and laan1 for the character 蘭. This vegetable name uses laan2.

樖 is also written 棵, read po1. The classifier entry covers a vegetable that still has its stalk, or a tree that still has its trunk. The collocations are 「一樖樹」 and 「一樖菜」. 菜心 can be counted with 條 or with 樖. 芥蘭 is given only 樖. What is being counted is the whole plant with its stem. Once it is cut up, that classifier no longer fits.

矮瓜 ai2 gwaa1 is a purple fruit that can be cooked, measured with 個 or 條. Near synonyms are 茄子 and 茄瓜. 蕃茄 and 番茄 share one entry, faan1 ke2, measured with 個 or 隻. to-jyutping lists ke2 and ke4 among the candidates for the character 茄. This name uses ke2. The shape is an orange or red ball, large or small, with a star-shaped green calyx on top. It is watery and sour, used as an ingredient more often than eaten as it is.

Names called out at stalls every day, with no words.hk entry, are given here only as to-jyutping. No botany is added. 通菜 tung1 coi3. A street in Mong Kok is itself called 通菜街, the same two characters as the vegetable. Where the street name came from was not checked for this page. 節瓜 zit3 gwaa1, 毛瓜 mou4 gwaa1. The dictionary does not say whether the two names are one plant. 芫荽 jyun4 seoi1. 薯仔 syu4 zai2. 西洋菜 sai1 joeng4 coi3. 紹菜 siu6 coi3. 黃芽白 wong4 ngaa4 baak6. 勝瓜 sing3 gwaa1.

The meat and fish stalls are missing too. 排骨 paai4 gwat1, 牛腩 ngau4 naam5, 鯇魚 waan5 jyu2. to-jyutping often gives jyu4 for the character 魚 alone. In 鯇魚 it becomes jyu2. Cuts such as 坑腩, 一字排 and 唐排 have no matching entries, so they are not treated as definitions here. Cooked meat at the siu mei window is a different stall: see siu mei. Spare ribs in black-bean sauce, in a teahouse steamer, are in dim sum.

Sources

• LSHK Jyutping scheme
• CanCLID to-jyutping
• words.hk: 街市, 樖, 菜心, 芥蘭, 矮瓜, 蕃茄