Spicy Dew / Laxianlu ???
I've been running through a cooking channel on Youtube of a fairly awesome chef based in China, but predictably the videos are all in chinese, with chinese subtitles, and I don't speak it. Some truly wonderful person has subtitled a few of his videos in english, and in one he references laxianlu (spicy dew) as it was translated. Is that some mistranslation, or is it an actual ingredient?
https://youtu.be/7lVi3GozYrQ?t=69 right around there is when he mentions it; it's a slightly dark, brown liquid. Super curious about it, but I have no idea who to ask. Anyone know?
Posted Nov 28, 2018, 5:03 AM UTC
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辣鲜露 (La Xian Lu) is basically a convenient instant sauce. It literally mean Spicy (La) Umami (Xian) Lu (Sauce/Gravy).
It is basically soy sauce, chillies paste and MSG. You could made it from scratch with soy sauce, chillies paste and some stock. I believe they roughly translated 辣鲜露 (La Xian Lu) as "Chilli Liquid Seasoning" for English speaking customers.
WOW this comment was ages old! Thank you so much!