Rice tofu + Sichuan peppercorn
Rice tofu and sichuan peppercorn are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.31) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.33). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "East Asian soy and tofu pantry" 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 rice tofu and sichuan peppercorn — 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 soy and tofu pantry
- Cooks withChinese pantry staples and condiments
- Cooks withChinese savory pantry staples
- BlendedEast Asian soy and spice pantry
- BlendedChinese savory umami pantry
- BlendedChinese pantry staples and freshwater fish
- Tastes likeSichuan and East-Asian fermented aromatics
- Tastes likeChinese savory sauces and umami staples