Donkey meat + Loach
Donkey meat and loach 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 "Chinese savory pantry staples" 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 donkey meat and loach — 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 withChinese savory pantry staples
- Cooks withEast Asian hot pot ingredients
- BlendedEast Asian fish and savory fermented pastes
- BlendedEast Asian seafood and umami aromatics
- BlendedChinese braising pantry ingredients
- BlendedChinese savory umami pantry
- BlendedChinese pantry staples and freshwater fish
- Tastes likeChinese savory pantry ingredients