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pangaia

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4. No need to break the bank---
Sun Jan 12, 2020, 05:12 PM
Jan 2020

Trader Joes and whole foods will not have the REAL important.ingredients,, but they are not hard to find...




Here is a great source for Sichuan ingredients ----this is THE BOMB place... you can trust them 100%
https://themalamarket.com/

They have recipes on their website that will answer your questions much faster than I can type.. :&gt ))

They are also on FaceBook

Li Ziqi is Shiuanese, btw, and lives in a town not far from Chengdu, capital of Sichuan. She has many, many videos;; and a beautiful LONG back story...abused as a child, parents died when she was young----- worth looking into.. she is just a national treasure....


Books for Sichuan and Hunan-- Fuchsia Dunlop
Any of her books-- EVERY GRAIN OF RICE and LAND OF FISH AND RICE are perfection also lists ingredients and

Books for Cantonese--
by Grace Young- BREATH OF A WOK, and THE WISDOM OF THE CHINESE KITCHEN beautiful, brilliant books..
She is also on FB as Wok Wednesdays


Happy cooking---


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