It's a bit different than 5 spice powder, instead its a little pouch full of lightly crushed (not ground) spices. The spices include cinnamon, fennel, ginger, cumin, clove. Pronounced lu bao in Chinese, it literally translates to spicing pack. The spicing process involves cooking meat, tofu, eggs, potatoes, or even peanuts in a highly concentrated soy sauce based, spiced soup. The food just soaks in the flavors beautifully. This spice can be found at any chinese store and is super cheap. $1.39 will get you 6 individual packets.
When using these spice packets, you just drop the whole bag into whatever you are cooking: much like brewing tea. There is a set of badly translated set of instructions on the back of the bag. With some good inference skills, an English speaker can easily learn to incorporate this spice packet into his/her cooking repertoire.
When using these spice packets, you just drop the whole bag into whatever you are cooking: much like brewing tea. There is a set of badly translated set of instructions on the back of the bag. With some good inference skills, an English speaker can easily learn to incorporate this spice packet into his/her cooking repertoire.