Chinese Food & Ingredients

Your Chinese supermarket online! Order the same Asian ingredients online that you would find in a Chinese supermarket or Asian supermarket: Lao Gan Ma (LGM), Lee Kum Kee (LKK), and many more.

Chinese food places as much emphasis on texture as on taste, and flavours differ from region to region. There’s a strong tradition of resourcefulness with Chinese ingredients – artisanal techniques like fermenting, drying and pickling are commonly used to preserve food. Many Chinese dishes can be made just from store-cupboard ingredients: pickles, dried mushrooms, dried sausage, dry rice, noodles, and sauces.

Essential Chinese Ingredients

If you are just starting to cook authentic Chinese food, here are a few essentials for your store cupboard:

Light soy sauce: Great for seasoning and umami flavour
Dark soy sauce: Great for adding rich brown colour to your cooking
Oyster sauce: Rich earthy sauce used to enhance stir fries
Shaoxing rice wine: The secret ingredient to authentic Chinese flavour
Sichuan peppercorns: Fragrant peppercorn used to add heat
Sesame oil: For stir-fries, finishing dishes or in dressings

Essential Chinese Cookware

Here is some key cookware to get you started:

Carbon steel wok: for that authentic slightly smoky stir-fried flavour
Bamboo steamer: for making dim sum and steamed buns
Hot pot: for traditional Chinese meals around the table
Chinese chopper: A lighter ‘cleaver-style’ knife used for chopping meat and vegetables

Some of our Favourite Chinese Recipes

Kung Po Tofu - Made with Sichuan peppercorns for a spicy sweet dish
Chinese Broccoli and mushroom stir fry - A crunchy Cantonese recipe served with a side of rice
Chicken with young ginger - Fuschia Dunlop's recipe from the Land of fish and rice