How to Stock a Chinese Pantry: Essential Ingredients to Always Have on Hand

How to Stock a Chinese Pantry: Essential Ingredients to Always Have on Hand

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Chinese Pantry Essentials – What to Buy at a Chinese Supermarket

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Serious Mealtimes / Vicky Wasik

In recent decades Americans have discovered that there’s more to Chinese food than the Cantonese flavors both traditional and bastardized brought by the first wave of Chinese immigrants. With 1.3 billion people 23 provinces and a geography that encompasses mountains grasslands deserts lakes and oceans there’s more than a little variety in China and by extension in its regional cuisines. Plus cooking has been an art form in China since the Chou Dynasty (1122–242 B.C.E.) so the country easily has one of the most complex and storied culinary traditions in the world.