/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.12704560]

What are some Asian ingredients I should pick up from my local Asian grocery store?

[Anonymous No.12704567]

>>12704560
A Filipina prostitute.
20 bucks should be enough

[Anonymous No.12704571]

>>12704567
Can she cook for me?

[Anonymous No.12704577]

>>12704560
angry grandma sauce

[Anonymous No.12704581]

>>12704571
Yes, but you'll get something shitty like spaghetti with banana ketchup and pig's blood soup.

[Anonymous No.12704584]

Cassava

[Anonymous No.12704596]

probably some ginger bro

[Anonymous No.12704615]

for deglazing and forming the base of sauces and cooking veges in:
clear chinese rice wine (more versatile)
shaoxiang wine (richer)
(both should only be a couple $ for a litre)
maybe sake

for seasoning:
expensive sesame oil (dressings)
cheap sesame oil (punchy chinese food)
rice wine vinegar (maybe get a cheap and expensive version of this too)
maybe chiankiang vinegar
mirin
hoisin sauce, maybe oyster sauce
kikkoman or yamasa soy
chinese dark soy (sweet, not very salty, and dark colour)
fish sauce (i like tiporas, red boat, 3 crab, or squid are good too)
5 spice powder
palm or rock sugar

for spicy:
grandma sauce
doubanjiang (chilli bean paste)- more funky than above
korean chilli flakes and gochujuang paste if you want to cook korean food

I always get whatever leafy chinese veges are freshest too, make sure to cook them that night though, they don't keep well. Maybe get some fried tofu or rice noodles too.
sesame seeds and peanuts if you don't have a better indian store for that.
maybe some frozen lemongrass and galangal and fresh chillis, fresh turmeric, fresh ginger etc

[Anonymous No.12704623]

>>12704615
those spicy pastes are all more for their flavour btw
if you want spicy food best is fresh chilli as well, and chilli powder next if you don't have it.

[Anonymous No.12704630]

>>12704577
I always thought it was "that guy" sauce.
Its a female? How did you know?

[Anonymous No.12704636]

>>12704630
to tell you the truth, I have no idea. i just always thought it was an old woman.
but make sure never, ever to get it on your clothes. i have a very nice shirt some of this splashed on while spooning it out of the jar and it has stained it so hard the shirt isn't salvageable.

oh and my second recommendation: some dehydrated and packaged shiitake mushrooms, they work in just about every soup

[Anonymous No.12704655]

>>12704615
Thank you for your informational post!

[Anonymous No.12704738]

>>12704630
it's 'old godmother'
the woman who started it, pic related, did it just in her restaurant to begin with, and now she produces over a million jars daily and is a billionare.

[Anonymous No.12704755]

>>12704738
Yikes, that creature is the definition of androgynous.
That thing is a billionaire? In what currency? Surely some third world type where you need a million of them to buy a jar of her hot sauce.

[Anonymous No.12704765]

>>12704755
that's just what happens to asian women anon

1.05 billion american dollars according to forbes

she's got a pretty cool rags to riches story, grew up poor, couldn't even read, husband died soon after they married, opened small noodle stall to provide for her kids, took it from there.

[Anonymous No.12704768]

>>12704755
She looks like any other old chinese lady.
>billionaire? In what currency?
All of them, probably. It's a lot of sauce.

[Anonymous No.12704846]

>>12704755
>she's ugly so she can't possibly be rich
Here's how I know you're a woman born after 1990.

>>12704615
Good post.

I like to try weird frozen foods from local store. Fishes and such, but that can be a bit of a gamble.