From the descriptions, it looks like the gentleman spoke Cantonese. I can identify the names of a number of these in Cantonese (I've probably eaten almost every one of them), but I don't know the English equivalents, unfortunately. In general, "choi" or "choy" indicates that it is a leafy vegetable of some sort. "Gua" inidicates that it is a melon. "dou" indicates that it is a bean. The term "choy sum" is sometimes used in to indicate any number small, leafy vegetable similar to baby bok choy. In standard Chinese mainland mandarin, "choy" would be spelled "cai", but "gua" and "dou" would stay the same, if memory serves me correctly. All bets are off for Taiwanese spellings, but they are rather rare. Based on your phonetic spellings, here are my guesses with the percentage of certainty: Fu Gua: bitter melon (100%) gai choi: Chinese mustard green (100%) gai lan: Chinese broccoli/Chinese kale (100%) cheng dou: long bean of some type, possibly yard long bean (100%) choi go: possibly "gow choy" or Chinese Leek (50%) don gua: possibly "dong gua" or Chinese winter melon (75%) pau gua: possible calabash or bottle gourd (60%) yau choi: possibly green choy sum (50%) san choi: possibly Malabar spinach or Ceylon spinach (60%) dai choi: possibly Napa Valley Cabbage. The name sounds like it means "big vegetable" (25%). What you may wish to do is to get the gentleman to write down the names of the plants and go to your nearest Chinese market and look for the matches. Otherwise, just plant the seeds in the ground and see what comes up! Here is a link that might be useful: Asian vegetable names

You've got it. Steve in Baltimore County

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You don't specify your location but your profile says you're from Texas. You can try Greyhounds Unlimited, they are listed as Dallas, TX. There is a phone number at the bottom of the website. There's another one, Greyhound Adoption League, http://www.greyhoundadoptiontx.org/, they have a phone number too. They are listed as Addison, TX. Or Heart of TX greyhound Adoption, http://www.heartoftexasgreyhounds.com/, San Antonio. Or Greyhound Rescue Austin, http://www.greyhoundrescueaustin.com/ Also, if you've gotten that close to her you could try to get a large trapping crate (buy beg or borrow one), and it it may take a week or so of gradully getting her to eat closer to the crate then put the food inside the crate. Start w/ the crate maybe 10 ft away then a foot closer every day. Keep in mind if she's a retired racer she may be leery of crates so you would need to be patient. We've caught feral cats using a trap and food, it has taken weeks before to get the mother but eventually she went for the food. As we got her closer to the crate we had to withhold food for a couple days to get her hungry enough to make her enter the trap. That was 4 yrs ago, she is now spayed, has a heated house in the winter and eats twice a day. I think she's the most spoiled feral in our neighborhood. Once you have her, I'm sure one of the greyhound groups would take her and rehome her for you. Good luck, what a shame people dump animals like that. Here is a link that might be useful: Greyhounds Unlimited