/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10888253
Wrong. It's not very spicy at all. It's more flavourful. And it's unwelcome in many cleaner flavour, say Japanese-esque, or regional Chinese style dishes that are supposed to be just soy or mirin flavour for example. It's also unwelcome in many south east asian dishes that are more fragrant, with lemongrass, or galangal type flavours.

Say you make Hong-Shao Rou. You could add chillis to make it spicy, ginger, star anise, cinnamon, and then add some lao gan ma meme oil as well. That would be good, i do it that way sometimes. But I think i prefer Hong Shao-Rou with just the soy & shaoxiang wine flavour.

It goes best with Sichuan-style food. Bold flavours and spicy food, oily food. It doesn't give spice, but use it alongside chillis. It goes well with rich food, fatty lamb or pork, with 5 spice kind of spices, with garlic and ginger. It's really nice in lamb meatballs with 5 spice and garlic. Winter food. Lao Gan Ma is easy to use you can add it at any stage of the cooking and it doesn't matter how much you use really.

Sure, it does work with everything. It does. But making really good 'asian food' means going beyond cooking generic 'asian' food. The reason it works with everything is that MSG is one of the main ingredients. Lao Gan Ma is really just an excuse for people to get away with using MSG.

Pic related is the real nigga meme sauce. It absolutely doesn't go with everything but it gives a lot more than meme gan ma when you use it well.