CHINESE INGREDIENTS GLOSSARY – WHAT YOU WILL NEED FOR CHINESE COOKING

When cooking traditional Chinese food, you’ll come across both familiar and unfamiliar ingredients. We’ve compiled a list of some of Chinese ingredients we use most often, so if you have a question (e.g. “What the heck is a soy puff?!”), come here and look it up! If you think we’ve left anything out, feel free to comment below.

So get out of your comfort zone a little, and explore your local Asian grocery store and use our Chinese ingredients glossary as a general guide. If you don’t have one near you, we’ve provided some product links for you to easily locate many of the ingredients on Amazon. Even if you don’t buy, you can see what else is out there beside what we have in our collection here.

Full disclosure: this page does contain affiliate links, which means if you do buy something as a result of following one of our Amazon links, you will be supporting The Woks of Life! But prices are the same regardless.

Finally, this list we compiled is for all of you, our loyal readers, followers, and makers of our authentic recipes! Reading through the glossary and getting to know the essential ingredients will definitely up you Chinese Cooking game. So don’t hesitate to drop us an email or leave a comment if you have more questions or additional requests, since we plan to update these pages often.