Eating in China
A pale gray-tan cohesive mound of cooked buckwheat starch gel in a plain ceramic bowl.

Buckwheat starch

荞麦淀粉Qiáomài diànfěn

Starch separated from soaked ground buckwheat and cooked into a cohesive mass.

Type
Flour & starch noodles

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Starch separated from soaked ground buckwheat and cooked into a cohesive mass.

In the kitchen

Tianshui buckwheat guagua.

Extracted starch differs from whole buckwheat flour; guagua can also be made from other crops.

Ask about this ingredient

这道菜里有荞麦淀粉吗?

Does this dish contain Buckwheat starch?

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