Mountain pepper + Qingjiang fish
Mountain pepper and qingjiang fish are substitute candidates — they share aroma chemistry (chem 0.40) but rarely appear in the same dish. One could stand in for the other in many recipes. 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 mountain pepper and qingjiang fish — 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
- Cooks withEast and Southeast Asian hot pot ingredients
- BlendedChinese savory pantry staples
- BlendedChinese savory umami pantry
- Tastes likeChinese regional cooking ingredients
- Tastes likeChinese savory fermented and umami ingredients