Yi Bin Sui Mi Ya Cai - YiBin SuiMiYaCai - Dried Vegetable, 8.1oz (230g)

Product was exactly as described. Perfect for my Dan Dan Noodle recipe.

Exactly what I needed

I’m torn on rating this. It was my first time to try. Dan Dan noodles was the target. The product seemed well prepared. I used the recipe amount. I didnt like it, but it may have been that I would have been better satisfied with a lesser amount since it was an unfamiliar taste. So, maybe it was a 5 star product. I don’t really know.

Product is good but cost is too high

I bought it for Dan Dan Noodles - an online recipe listed it. I'd never tried it before, and I absolutely love it. It's hard to describe the flavor - very umami, not sour, deep and complex. I've since used it in soups, ramen, salad dressing, etc. My 9 year old daugher adores it too. I took it out of the packet and put it in a small tupperware container and it seems to stay fine going on month two now. It sort of tastes a bit of delicious olive tappenade, very hard to describe, but I really like it. It is one of those secret ingredient things that adds complexity without being overwhelming. I'm glad I heard about it and tried it. I'll keep in the pantry from now on.

Great for if you need that one ingredient to make your DanDan taste like those restaurants that try to give you forks and look at you like you walked into the wrong place. That beautiful flavor of the impossible-to-replicate pickled vegetables which eludes the common pantry. The rareness is worth the cost. I was a bit disappointed to find a big Chinese grocery store selling it at $1.55 compared to the $7.00 I'd been paying for the last couple of months online. But, if you only have access to small Asian grocery stores, the price is worth that final flavor in any Chinese recipe.

I was making several recipes from the America's Test Kitchen Chinese Cookbook which called for yacai, or pickled mustard greens, so decided to order some, and cooked them up in the Sichuan Green Beans. I did not like the texture (have to agree w/ prior customer who said was like "mulched grass," or flavor, kind of reminiscent of dirty socks. I tossed the rest of the package, and plan to make my next recipe without them.

So happy I found these fermented mustard greens. They give my Sichuan dishes that restaurant touch. Just wish it came in a jar or some sort of container to keep it in. I imagine authentic cooks use it much more often than I do and maybe quite a bit more.