Five-spice powder is a spice mixture of five or more spices 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.
Double steaming,sometimes called double boiling,is a Chinese cooking technique to prepare delicate food such as bird's nest soup and shark fin soup. The food is covered with water and put in a covered ceramic jar and the jar is then steamed for several hours. This technique ensures there is no loss of liquid or moisture from the food being cooked,hence it is often used with expensive ingredients like Chinese herbal medicines.
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.
A lime is a citrus fruit,which is typically round,green in color,3–6 centimetres (1.2–2.4 in) in diameter,and contains acidic juice vesicles.
Bitter orange,sour orange,Seville orange,bigarade orange,or marmalade orange is in a narrow sense the citrus tree 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 probably a cross between the pomelo,Citrus maxima,and the mandarin orange,Citrus reticulata.
Chinese herbology is the theory of traditional Chinese herbal therapy,which accounts for the majority of treatments in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). A Nature editorial described TCM as "fraught with pseudoscience",and said that the most obvious reason why it has not delivered many cures is that the majority of its treatments have no logical mechanism of action.
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 but many of whom 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.
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.
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,modernized into a ready-to-use form such as tablets,oral solutions or dry suspensions,as opposed to herbs that require cooking.
The Kojiki and Nihon Shoki,compiled in the 700s,were the first books in Japan to describe citrus fruits. The Nihon Shoki states that a man named Tajimamori brought back citrus fruits from the Tokoyo no kuni on the orders of Emperor Suinin,which is thought to refer to the tachibana orange that grows wild in Japan. The Man'yōshū,a collection of poems from the same period,contains many poems about tachibana orange,and because of its strong acidity at the time,it was dried and used for medicinal and ornamental purposes rather than for food. The Kokin Wakashū,compiled in the 900s,mentions that tachibana orange was burned and used as incense to give a nice fragrance to kimonos. In Japan,tachibana orange is a symbol of eternity and is the motif for the Order of Culture.
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 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.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to herbs and spices:
