Eating in China
Several red-brown Chinese sausages with one cut to show meat and fat.

Chinese sausage

臘腸Làcháng

Thin reddish cured sausage, commonly slightly sweet with a wine-like aroma.

Type
Meat

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Thin reddish cured sausage, commonly slightly sweet with a wine-like aroma.

In the kitchen

Lo mai gai filling.

Pork lap cheong and liver-containing cured sausages differ.

Ask about this ingredient

这道菜里有臘腸吗?

Does this dish contain Chinese sausage?

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