Five-spice powder five-spice powders. Five spice may be used with fatty meats such as pork, duck or goose. It is used as a spice rub for chicken, duck, pork and seafood, in red cooking recipes, or added to the breading for fried foods. Five spice is used in recipes for Cantonese roasted duck, as well as beef stew. It is used as a marinade for Vietnamese broiled chicken. The five-spice powder mixture has followed the Chinese diaspora and has been incorporated into other national cuisines throughout Asia. In Hawaii, some restaurants place a shaker of the spice on each patron's table. A
Batak cuisine Batak cuisine Batak cuisine is the cuisine and cooking traditions of Batak ethnic groups, predominantly found in North Sumatra region, Indonesia. Batak cuisine is part of Indonesian cuisine, and compared to other Sumatran cuisine traditions, it is more indigenously preserved. One characteristic of Batak cuisine its preference to andaliman ("Zanthoxylum acanthopodium") as the main spice. That is why andaliman in Indonesia sometimes dubbed as "Batak pepper". Batak people are majority Christian — unlike neighboring Muslim-majority ethnic groups such as Aceh and Minang — Batak people are not restricted to Islamic halal dietary law. Many of the Batak's best meals are