One key ingredient is ‘hua diao jiu’, or chinese rice wine. Cheryl Goh speaks with Ang Chien Sern, Chief Operating Officer of Ang Leong Huat, about chinese rice wine in cooking. The ...

Chinese fermented black beans (known in Cantonese ... before putting them in a bowl and adding warm water or rice wine (or whatever the recipe calls for) and leaving to soak for about 15 minutes.

(I’ve yet to smell and taste Icelandic hákarl, or fermented shark ... to flavour a mouthful of rice or steamed pork patty. If you are new to eating salted fish, use the smaller amount ...

Fans of Chinese cuisine are most certainly familiar ... sauce include some form of alcohol -- sherry, red wine, or rice wine -- plus fermented bean paste for even more umami and a sweetener ...

and a 9,000-year-old fermented rice and honey drink from Neolithic China—which, McGovern says, still “goes very well with Chinese food.” We asked the “Indiana Jones of alcohol” to dig ...