Yi Bin Sui Mi Ya Cai - YiBin SuiMiYaCai - Dried Vegetable, 8.1oz (230g)

I bought it for Dan Dan Noodles - an online recipe listed it. I'd never tried it before, and I absolutely love it. It's hard to describe the flavor - very umami, not sour, deep and complex. I've since used it in soups, ramen, salad dressing, etc. My 9 year old daugher adores it too. I took it out of the packet and put it in a small tupperware container and it seems to stay fine going on month two now. It sort of tastes a bit of delicious olive tappenade, very hard to describe, but I really like it. It is one of those secret ingredient things that adds complexity without being overwhelming. I'm glad I heard about it and tried it. I'll keep in the pantry from now on.

Product is good but cost is too high

So happy I found these fermented mustard greens. They give my Sichuan dishes that restaurant touch. Just wish it came in a jar or some sort of container to keep it in. I imagine authentic cooks use it much more often than I do and maybe quite a bit more.

I use this condiment in Szechuan recipes. I can't comment on the authenticity of the taste, but I' happy with how the recipes turn out. And the packaging works very well for storage in the fridge, sealing well and taking up very little space.

Product was exactly as described. Perfect for my Dan Dan Noodle recipe.

Honestly, i was making a dish that called for this ingredient so i spent the money... what a waste! The texture is like eating partially mulched grass (not that I've tried but it was the best imagery/analogy I could come up with). And, the most disappointing bit is that it had so little flavor that all it really added to the dish was the disgusting texture. I tried the recipe again but used veggies I pickled on my own and it turned out a thousand times better. So... if your recipe calls for this ingredient, spare yourself the cost and just look up a quick pickling recipe (many are so easy and fast I can't believe I didn't learn to do it sooner) - and as a bonus, you get to pick and choose your favorite veggies to add (instead of eating this mystery pickled veggie concoction). I really hope this helps those of you who are experimenting with new recipes with unfamiliar ingredients (like so many of us started doing while COVID had us cooped up).

Great for if you need that one ingredient to make your DanDan taste like those restaurants that try to give you forks and look at you like you walked into the wrong place. That beautiful flavor of the impossible-to-replicate pickled vegetables which eludes the common pantry. The rareness is worth the cost. I was a bit disappointed to find a big Chinese grocery store selling it at $1.55 compared to the $7.00 I'd been paying for the last couple of months online. But, if you only have access to small Asian grocery stores, the price is worth that final flavor in any Chinese recipe.

Service was great but product was not the mustard plant bulb strips (Zhacai) I was expecting. Instead it is marinated chopped mustard leaves. Very dark and not at all attractive. I bought it for Tantanmen Ramen. This is not the proper Zhacai.