Poria Cocos Mushroom
味がないのに絶対必要！？台湾薬膳スープのバランスを司る「四つの神」の最後の一人
Description
Dried, squarely cut sclerotium of a mushroom (Poria) parasitizing pine roots. Almost tasteless and odorless, but serves to balance the soup's flavor and unify medicinal effects.
Classification: For Adults,Dried Spice,White Block of Si Shen Tang
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How to use
Ingredients
- Fuling(Dried Poria mushroom)
Instructions
- [Usage Secret]
- [Completion of Si Shen Tang] The final spice constituting Si Shen Tang alongside Qian Shi, Huai Shan, and Lian Zi (or Yi Ren). Simmered straight with pork offal. Fuling itself has a powdery texture and no taste, but magically harmonizes the strong flavors of other spices, unifying the soup into 'that Taiwan night market taste'.
- [Tea/Soup Dashi] Often simmered as a base for medicinal tea or chicken soup to extract compounds, then removed without eating the body.
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Key spices
Nearly tasteless/odorless、but faint mushroom and wood scent
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Irreplaceable (Due to unique efficacy and soup harmony effect)
Pairing
Si Shen Tang, Medicinal tea
Trivia
[For Adults] The 'Four Gods' of Si Shen Tang aren't Azure Dragon or White Tiger, but these 4 herbs: 'Qian Shi, Huai Shan, Fuling, Lian Zi' (*Modern stalls often sub expensive Lian Zi with Yi Ren). Fuling is considered the strongest for 'expelling excess body water', the core of Taiwan's debloating. If a square block like a white eraser is sunken at the soup bottom, it's this. No need to force yourself to eat it.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Powder Fuling, mix with flour and sugar, and steam to eat as 'Fuling Gao', a traditional pure white Taiwanese sweet!
Allergen
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