Chinese Cooking Ingredients

Canola Oil (Rape Seed Oil)

China produces and uses a lot of this oil. A product of rape seed it is know as rapeseed oil in China. We give it a more politically correct name in this country as Canola Oil. It is used in Chinese cooking because it does not smoke at high temperatures. We use it in preparing the pork sauce put on top of the Chinese noodles (Mian Tiao).