Mala sauce oily, and the tastes more complex. Common sauces include sesame oil with garlic, oyster oil, or doufu ru. The sauce is used in a variety of ways, from stir-fry, stews, and soup, to being used in hot pot or as a dipping sauce. In the Sichuan and Yunnan provinces mala powder (麻辣粉; pinyin: málàfĕn) is used on snacks and street foods, such as stinky tofu, fried potatoes, and barbecued meat and vegetables. The sauce is made primarily of dried chili peppers, chili powder, douban paste, Sichuan peppercorns, clove, garlic, star anise, black cardamom, fennel, ginger, cinnamon, salt and sugar. These
Ginger or just juiced to avoid the fibrous texture and added to the ingredients of the spicy paste just before the fermenting process. In Burma, ginger is called "gyin". It is widely used in cooking and as a main ingredient in traditional medicines. It is consumed as a salad dish called "gyin-thot", which consists of shredded ginger preserved in oil, with a variety of nuts and seeds. In Thailand' where it is called ขิง "khing", it is used to make a ginger garlic paste in cooking. In Indonesia, a beverage called "wedang jahe" is made from ginger and palm sugar. Indonesians