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Q: Pumpkin and Eggplant: Two vegetables that I've fallen in love with since being here. What are yours?
Bitter squash is pretty high on my list. Wok'ed with some black beans, some thinly sliced beef with a bit of oyster sauce and rice wine.
Eggplant and Pumpkin have also made it onto my "eat often" list.
I try to keep my relationship with vegetables purely business or platonic.
Pumpkin I can agree with, especially the 南瓜炒蛋. Eggplant is just so-so for me. For me, especially when eating hot-pot, I like the lotus root (藕). 
Eggplant is now my favourite vegetable, but I had only tried once or twice before coming to China. I also like the Chinese cabbage quite a lot
Broccoli is still awesome.
Scandinavian:
are you not aware of all the broccoli related deaths there are each year, Homer Simpson almost choked to death on broccoli
ravster09:
Better to know that Broccoli kills, instead of not knowing of the many other things that kills us. Like you said, "Awareness!".
Mongolian BBQ. That's as close as I get to romancing vegetables, with the possible exception of one of the girls I dated in the army.
Cucumbers. . steamed brocolli and steamed carrots. I need my bright vegetables..
Pumpkin, eggplant, lotus root, all varieties of mushroom (technically not a vegetable, I know), and winter melon, they're all good.
Okay, so it's not a vegetable, but I have acquired a taste for those huge grapefruit with the thick skin. What are they called? Oh, yeah. Pomelo (or shaddock). Native to Southeast Asia. Love the texture of the flesh despite it not being very juicy like the grapefruit I'm used to back home. Would love to take a couple back to Texas with me to show my "Everything-is-big-in-Texas" buddies, but I doubt I'd make it through customs unless there were a way I could disguise it so it looked like some sort of toy or something...
Scandinavian:
I can tell you, if Pomelo is in any way dangerous to eat, you can chew your way through many kgs of them before health is affected. It's a pretty kick ass fruit
Potato, onion, red peppers, cabbage, carrot, rice. same as home. The only thing close would be mango. I don't think I ever had them before or I did and had a bad on. I love mango.
I too have been eating and loving eggplant when I am in China. One of my favs for veggies.
The other one is kugua (balsalm pear). Love it, never tried it before coming to China, perhaps my #1 here.
苦瓜
Kǔguā
I see people have mentioned some other loves of mine that I practically didn't know existed back home : Lotus root, 苦瓜 (balsamic pear/bitter melon?) oh and one more which I'm pretty sure doesn't have an English name - Donggua (冬) great in hotpots.
