Glossary

Index


Fennel Seeds

An essential ingredient in five spice powder....

Fermented Beancurd

A Chinese product, also used in Thai cuisine. It is red in colour, and made by fermenting slightly dried beancurd...

Fermented Fish Sauce

A rather foul smelling fish sauce that originates for the northern part of Thailand. It is made by salting fresh...

Fermented Rice

This ingredient is mostly used in savoury food, to balance sourness or saltiness. It is sweet and slightly alcoholic....

Fish Balls

Pulped white fleshed fish, moulded into spheres. Usually they are poached in broths, or found sliced in soups. They...

Fish Sauce

A completely natural ingredient that is used in many Oriental cuisines as a replacement for salt. It has a very...

Five Spice Powder

A traditional Chinese spice blend made from (it is said) five tradional flavours based on the proper yin-yang balance of flavours...

Flowering Chives

See Chinese chives....

Fu

Shapes made from gluten flour that are usually served in a broth....

Fugu

A potentially fatal fish used in the making of sushi and sashimi in Japan. Consuming certain parts of the fish...

Futo-Maki

Sushi rolls / various ingredients rolled up in a sheet of nori seaweed....