Five-spice powder is a spice mixture of five or more spices—commonly star anise,cloves,Chinese cinnamon,Sichuan pepper,and fennel seeds—used predominantly in almost all branches of Chinese cuisine. The five flavors of the spices refers to the five traditional Chinese elements. The addition of eight other spices creates thirteen-spice powder (十三香),which is used less commonly.
Herbal teas,technically known as herbal infusions,and less commonly called tisanes,are beverages made from the infusion or decoction of herbs,spices,or other plant material in hot water. Often herb tea,or the plain term tea,is used as a reference to all sorts of herbal teas. Many herbs used in teas/tisanes are also used in herbal medicine and in folk medicine.
A mandarin orange,often simply called mandarin,is a small,rounded citrus tree fruit. Treated as a distinct species of orange,it is usually eaten plain or in fruit salads. The mandarin is small and oblate,unlike the roughly spherical sweet orange. The taste is sweeter and stronger than the common orange. A ripe mandarin orange is firm to slightly soft,heavy for its size,and pebbly-skinned. The peel is thin and loose,with little white mesocarp,so they are usually easier to peel and to split into segments. Hybrids have these traits to lesser degrees. The mandarin orange is tender and is damaged easily by cold. It can be grown in tropical and subtropical areas.
The tangerine is a type of citrus fruit that is orange in color,that is considered either a variety of Citrus reticulata,the mandarin orange,or a closely related species,under the name Citrus tangerina,or yet as a hybrid of mandarin orange varieties,with some pomelo contribution.
A lime is a citrus fruit,which is typically round,lime green in colour,3–6 centimetres (1.2–2.4 in) in diameter,and contains acidic juice vesicles.
The bitter orange,sour orange,Seville orange,bigarade orange,or marmalade orange is the hybrid citrus tree species Citrus ×aurantium,and its fruit. It is native to Southeast Asia and has been spread by humans to many parts of the world. It is a cross between the pomelo,Citrus maxima,and the wild type mandarin orange,Citrus reticulata. The bitter orange is used to make essential oil,used in foods,drinks,and pharmaceuticals. The Seville orange is prized for making British orange marmalade.
Xinhui,alternately romanized as Sunwui and also known as Kuixiang,is an urban district of Jiangmen in Guangdong,China. It grew from a separate city founded at the confluence of the Tan and West Rivers. It has a population of about 735,500,98% of whom are Han Chinese and many of them speak a dialect of Cantonese as their first language. Xinhui is best known in China for its chenpi,a kind of dried Mandarin orange peel.
Yuzu is a citrus fruit and plant in the family Rutaceae of Chinese origin. Yuzu has been cultivated mainly in East Asia,though it has also recently been grown in New Zealand,Australia,Spain,Italy,and France.
Orange chicken is an American Chinese dish of fried chicken in a sweet orange-flavored chili sauce glaze.
Shichi-mi tōgarashi,also known as nana-iro tōgarashi or simply shichimi,is a common Japanese spice mixture containing seven ingredients. Tōgarashi is the Japanese name for Capsicum annuum peppers,and it is this ingredient that makes shichimi spicy.
The iyokan,also known as anadomikan (穴門みかん) and Gokaku no Iyokan,is a Japanese citrus fruit,similar in appearance to a mandarin orange,with Dancy as the pollen parent and Kaikokan as the seed parent. It is the second most widely produced citrus fruit in Japan after the satsuma mandarin. Ehime Prefecture accounted for 90% of Iyokan production in 2021.
Arctium lappa,commonly called greater burdock,gobō (牛蒡/ゴボウ),edible burdock,lappa,beggar's buttons,thorny burr,or happy major is a Eurasian species of plants in the family Asteraceae,cultivated in gardens for its root used as a vegetable. It has become an invasive weed of high-nitrogen soils in North America,Australia,and other regions.
Zest is a food ingredient that is prepared by scraping or cutting from the rind of unwaxed citrus fruits such as lemon,orange,citron,and lime. Zest is used to add flavor to many different types of food.
Peel,also known as rind or skin,is the outer protective layer of a fruit or vegetable which can be peeled off. The rind is usually the botanical exocarp,but the term exocarp also includes the hard cases of nuts,which are not named peels since they are not peeled off by hand or peeler,but rather shells because of their hardness.
Dit da jow is a common Chinese liniment used as traditional medicine in the belief it can reduce the pain from external injuries.
Chinese patent medicine are herbal medicines in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM),modernized into a ready-to-use form such as tablets,oral solutions or dry suspensions,as opposed to herbs that require cooking.
Japanese citrus fruits were first mentioned in the Kojiki and Nihonshoki,compiled in the 700s,and the Man'yōshū and Kokin Wakashū,poetry anthologies compiled in the 700s and 900s,mention the Tachibana orange as a subject of waka poetry and describe its use as a medicinal,ornamental,and incense plant.
Succade is the candied peel of any of the citrus species,especially from the citron or Citrus medica which is distinct with its extra-thick peel;in addition,the taste of the inner rind of the citron is less bitter than those of the other citrus. However,the term is also occasionally applied to the peel,root,or even entire fruit or vegetable like parsley,fennel and cucurbita which have a bitter taste and are boiled with sugar to get a special "sweet and sour" outcome.
The kishu mikan,from Japanese Kishūmikan (紀州蜜柑),is a hybrid variety of mikan,or mandarin orange,found in Southern China and also grown in Japan.
Gou Pi Gao,is a medicinal herbal plaster that is often used in traditional Chinese medicine. Gou Pi Gao,translated word for word,literally means dog skin plaster,which is indicative of its history.
