Did you Know? Chinese Dried Sausage

Chinese Dried Sauage

Did you Know? - Chinese Dried Sausage?

Chinese sausage is a generic term referring to the many different types of sausages originating in China. The southern flavor of Chinese sausage is commonly known by its Cantonese name lap cheong (or lap chong) (simplified Chinese: 腊肠; traditional Chinese: 臘腸.

There is a choice of fatty or lean sausages. There are different kinds ranging from those made using fresh pork to those made using pig livers, duck livers and even turkey livers. Usually a sausage made with liver will be darker in color than one made without liver. Recently, there have even been countries producing chicken Chinese sausages. Traditionally they are classified into two main types. It is sometimes rolled and steamed in dim sum.

Chinese sausage is used as an ingredient in quite a number of dishes in the southern Chineseprovinces of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Sichuan, and Hunan, and also Hong Kong, Taiwan. Sichuan sausage also contains red chili powder, Sichuan pepper powder, and Pixian bean sauce, to characterise the sausage with a special flavour. Two common examples of such dishes include fried rice and lo mai gai (糯米雞). The traditional unpackaged forms are usually found in street markets or wet markets.