Chinese ingredients

Our Chinese Ingredients Glossary lists all the Chinese ingredients we use. Explore your local Chinese grocery with our glossary as a guide!

Building an authentic pantry is the first thing to do when starting to cook Chinese food. Here are 10 must-have condiments which can help you to create many classic dishes.

With this growing list of Chinese sauces, wines, vinegars, and oils, we shed light on both essential and more obscure Chinese ingredients.

Wonderng how to elevate your food menu? Check out this list of 31 essential Asian ingredients that can help breathe new life into your menu.

Ingredients for Steamed Chinese Herbal Chicken

六味糖水 – Chinese Six Herbs Sweet Soup – Daily Cooking Quest

The basic staples for cooking Chinese cuisine, like soy sauce, black rice vinegar, and toasted sesame oil.

An brief introduction to 20 essential Chinese ingredients to cook great tasting Chinese food, and where to buy them, including online stores.

Recently I get the feedback from some of my readers that they are confused about the sauces and pastes mentioned in the recipes from this blog or other places introducing real Chinese recipes. Either you

Keep these Asian pantry essentials in your kitchen to quickly and easily whip up your favorite Asian dishes at home at any time!

A foolproof Chinese roast duck recipe that does not require many special ingredients and still gets a great result with golden crispy duck skin and juicy flavorful meat. Very detailed pictures and a video are included to showcase how to make a restaurant-style roast duck in your own kitchen. {Gluten-Free Adaptable}

This flavorful all-purpose Chinese meat sauce can make an exciting, satisfying meal out of any bowl of noodles, congee, or rice.

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Sweet and Sour Sauce is the classic tangy sweet dipping sauce of Chinese restaurants with just six ingredients ready in less than 10 minutes!

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This recipe, from chef Esther Choi’s grandmother, calls for a few crucial ingredients. It starts with sweet rice flour, which is cooked down into a kind of glue. This is used to thicken the chile paste—Choi advises never turning your back on it while cooking because it is prone to clumping and burning. Her recipe also uses plum extract, brined fermented Korean shrimp (saewoo juht), a good amount of shredded Korean dried pollock (bugeochae), and fresh scallions. The fermentation times listed…

Widely used in Asian cuisine, enoki mushroom has a mild flavour and a crunchy texture. It tastes amazing when steamed with garlic sauce. This post shows you how to prepare and cook it properly. #redhousespice

A delicious roundup of my favorite Chinese New Year recipes ranged from different regions of China, from main dish to dessert.

Chinese Medicinal Skin Clearing Pear Dessert Soup — Alice Sun