More officially known as Sriracha, but “rooster sauce” is much easier to say. Key to many Asian dishes. It comes in several varieties, the most common being a smooth ketchup-consistency one that comes in a squeeze bottle and is often found on the table at Asian restaurants. In addition to chilies, it contains sugar, salt, [...]
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Rooster Sauce
Posted in veggie stuff, tagged condiments, pantry on 01/22/2009 | Leave a Comment »
veggie mock everything
Posted in veggie stuff, tagged pantry on 01/15/2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are a couple of Chinese brands out there that put out mock meats in a can (mmm….). Behold: Chai Pow Yu (Chai = vegetarian, pow yu = abalone): Veggie abalone, which doesn’t taste anything like abalone (which actually tastes like a cross between clams and the non-tentacle part of calamari). It’s just fried bits [...]
Veggie Jerky
Posted in veggie stuff on 01/13/2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s basically two kinds of Chinese jerky– dry, which is usually loose and flossy, and wet, which is flat and leathery. We grew up eating a lot of it. Good stuff, but made from animals. And probably not parts of animals you want to eat either. Thank god there’s veggie Chinese jerky. Great for cooking, [...]
