In this Chinese cucumber salad, both short or long cucumber varieties work just as well. The shorter varieties (Persian, Lebanese) are dense with hardly any seeds and have a fresh more intense flavour. The longer varieties (telegraph, continental, English or hothouse) are crunchier with quite a few watery seeds in the middle. It is entirely up to you which you prefer and in any case, we will be removing all the seeds as they contain a lot of moisture - we don’t want to water down the beautiful flavours in our vinaigrette!