The Secret of A Great Cuisine Unveiled » some useful facts and figurs tips http://agape-cookingthechineseway.com/blog Greater knowledge for experienced cooks|The Complete answer for beginners|Simple way and Easy Cook Recipes Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:30:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Common Ingredients http://agape-cookingthechineseway.com/blog/2009/12/common-ingredients/ http://agape-cookingthechineseway.com/blog/2009/12/common-ingredients/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:11:19 +0000 Agape Goon http://agape-cookingthechineseway.com/blog/?p=611 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Fish Soy

Thai fish soy sauce. A good substitute is “Sambal Blacan” mixed with light soy sauce. Use sparingly.

Ginger

Use only fresh root ginger; never substitute powdered ginger as the flavor is quite different.

Silver Fish

Tiny salted and dried anchovies or whitebait, sometimes sold as “silver fish”. Useless using the very small thin variety not more than 2.5cm (1 in)long, discard the heads and dark intestinal tract.

Kun Sui

liquid bicarbonate of soda

Lemon Grass (serai)

Looks like a miniature leek. The bottom portion of family, used in curries. Substitute 12 strips dried lemon grass or 1 teaspoon powedered lemon grass for 1 stem of fresh lemon grass.

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A member if the ginger family, this used in curries. Substitute 1 teaspoon powdered lengkuas or laos powder for 0.5 cm (1/4 in) slice of fresh lengkuas.

Local Celery

Small fine stalks and leaves which are used as garnish or in soups. Use young leaves of regular celery vegetable as substitute.

Mono sodium Glutamate

Sometimes known as “gourment powder” this is a white crystalline powder used as a seasoning.

Palm sugar

Cakes of hard brown palm sugar. Soft brown sugar with a little maple or golden syrup can be used as substitute.

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Label all containers, indicating the contents, the quantity and the dare of freezing a graph pencil is ideal for labeling.

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