Sour bamboo shoot + Water mimosa
Sour bamboo shoot and water mimosa are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.33) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.39). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "East Asian mushrooms and greens" 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 sour bamboo shoot and water mimosa — 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 mushrooms and greens
- BlendedEast Asian vegetables and mushrooms
- BlendedEast and Southeast Asian noodles and condiments
- BlendedSoutheast and East Asian hot pot ingredients
- Tastes likeEast Asian fermented and pickled staples
- Tastes likeEast Asian seafood and preserved vegetables
- Tastes likeChinese regional cooking ingredients