Chili paste + Wild ginger

Chili paste and wild ginger 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 spicy fish and aromatics" mode.

Pairing scores

Cooks withmoderate signal

0.18

Tastes likemoderate signal

0.33

Blendedstrong signal

0.57

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.

Good additions to this pair

Ingredients that go well with both chili paste and wild ginger — candidates for completing the dish.

Sour broth0.25 White vinegar0.24 Green sichuan peppercorn0.23 Litsea cubeba0.23 Green chili0.22 Birds eye chili0.22 Sturgeon0.22 Soybean sprout0.22

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.

Shared flavor modes

Clusters that contain both ingredients — click through to see everything in the mode.

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