Banana leaf + Mei kuei lu wine
Banana leaf and mei kuei lu wine are weakly related — neither commonly paired in recipes nor close in aroma chemistry. They can be combined creatively, but there's no strong evidence the pairing is established. Both sit inside the "East Asian fermented sauces and aromatics" mode.
What do these scores mean?
Cooks-with (technical name: Cooc) measures how often the two ingredients appear in the same dish across 4M recipes. Tastes-like (Chem) measures how much aroma chemistry they share via FlavorDB. Blended (Core) combines both. All are cosine similarities in 300-D space — practical ranges differ per axis, so see the per-row context to read them.
Ingredients that go well with both banana leaf and mei kuei lu wine — candidates for completing the dish.
How this is ranked
Each candidate scores against both ingredients in the recipe co-occurrence embedding. We sort by the worse of the two scores, so the result fits the weaker partner — not just one of them.
Clusters that contain both ingredients — click through to see everything in the mode.
- Cooks withEast Asian fermented sauces and aromatics
- Cooks withEast Asian earthy mushrooms and legumes
- Cooks withSoutheast Asian tropical herbs and staples
- BlendedEast Asian fermented sauces and aromatics
- BlendedEast Asian chili peppers and aromatics
- BlendedSoutheast & East Asian aromatics and mushrooms
- BlendedChinese pantry staples and starches
- Tastes likeEast Asian vinegars and umami condiments