Chinese sausage

Sweet dried links

Chinese sausage is a dried, cured pork sausage used in East Asian cooking, typically sweet and slightly smoky.

Unlike Western sausages, it's firm and waxy, requiring cooking before eating—usually sliced thin and steamed, stir-fried, or added to rice dishes: The clay pot rice was topped with sliced Chinese sausage.

Also called lap cheong.

Cantonese

dim sum

Chinese small-plate tradition

congeeWatery rice porridge
steamed riceGrain cooked with vapor
fried riceStir-cooked grain dish

rice cooker · turnip cake · clay pot rice · char siu · Cantonese cuisine · five-spice powder · hoisin sauce · oyster sauce · bok choy · wonton

cured

preserved

Kept from deterioration

driedStripped of moisture
smokedExposed to wood fumes
saltedTreated with sodium chloride

air-dried · curing · sweetened · rendered · shelf-stable · firm · sliced · links · casings · aged

flavor

sweet

Tasting of sugar

savoryAppetizing, not sweet
smokyFilled with combustion haze
five-spiceChinese aromatic seasoning mix

soy sauce · sugar · rice wine · aromatic · pungent · rich · fatty · umami · garlicky · peppery

pork

pork belly

Fatty porcine underside cut

pork liverSwine's filtering organ
duck liverWaterfowl's filtration organ
fattyHigh in lipids

lean · ground · seasoned · stuffed · casings · rendered fat · marbling · char siu · bacon · ham

dishes

fried rice

Stir-cooked grain dish

clay pot riceRice cooked in earthenware
turnip cakeSteamed daikon radish cake
stir-fryQuick-cook in hot oil

noodles · congee · stuffing · omelets · steamed · sliced · diced · rendered · topping · filling

Chinese sausage

dim sum

preserved

sweet

pork belly

fried rice

Chinese sausage

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