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Blooming

Brief contact between ground spice and hot fat to extract fat-soluble aroma and colour compounds that water cannot reach. Carotenoids and capsaicinoids move into the fat within seconds, and the window before the same solids scorch is short enough to be counted rather than judged.

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    Dan Dan Udon

    Hard-fried pork with bloomed dried chilli, garlic, ginger and pickled mustard greens over udon, bound in a blended silken tofu and sesame sauce that never touches heat. Around 60 g of protein per bowl, which is the reason the dish exists: the tofu does the structural job sesame paste alone would do, at a third of the fat. Built from a real pantry rather than an ideal one, so it departs from Chengdu practice in named and deliberate ways.

    Sichuan · Chinese