Re: [CH] Product Report: Sze Chaun Chili Paste
Mark McHugh (mt_mchugh@internet-stat.net)
Sat, 16 Dec 2000 17:48:22 -0600
Jim Weller wrote:
>
> * Crossposted from: National Cooking Echo
>
> My beloved has been travelling a lot on business lately while I have
> been pretty much a stick in the mud stay at home. Every time she's in a
> new city she looks for new hot sauces for me to try out. (Gotta love
> that!)
>
> Her latest present was (sic) Sze Chuan Chili Sauce made by Sze Chuan
> Food Products Ltd. of Taiwan. It contains preserved red chilies, salt,
> sesame oil, and a bit of citric acid. It's a deep red, almost brownish
> paste with lots of pulpy chunks and seeds in it. Nice chile heat with an
> odd but pleasant aftertaste, from the sesame oil I guess. She brought me
> three 15 oz tins of the stuff, so its a good thing I like it.
>
> It tastes a lot like the stuff my favourite Chinese restaurant serves.
>
> The label says that a 1 tablespoon serving contains 4 calories. A whole
> tablespoon?!? A scant teaspoon suffices for me. The only way I eat a
> whole tablespoon of this stuff is when I ask for the "real thing" at
> that restaurant and send back the wimpy dipping sauce. This _really_
> sweet little waitress brings me a little bowl of the hot paste and then
> hovers around the table to check out my reaction. I just feel obligated
> to scarf down all of it for her sake. <G>
>
> Jim in Yellowknife
>
> .. I built my deck around my beer fridge.
This sounds like what I buy.
Chef Chow's Sze Chuan Chili Sauce
Red Chili, Salt, Salad Oil and Cooking Wine.
16oz jar for US$3.39
A cheezy Chef Boyardee-type on the label with the product's name in
Chinese characters beneath.
I have two jars in the fridge, one for cooking and the other I use to
flavor my stirfry oil. The stirfry jar I've had for 7 years. It's
like the stuff never wears out; keeps charging my oil.
You can tell when the oil's the right temp for cooking--your eyes
start watering!
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´´
Mark McHugh