HESHS Sichuan Pixian Boad Bean Paste with Red Chili Oil - 17.6 oz (500g) | Hong You Dou Ban

Transform your Ramen noodles with a teaspoon or more of this bean paste. It adds a really nice mellow heat that goes great with any meat or vegetable you like to include. I'm hooked.

This is a must have ingredient to make awesome mapo tofu.

It tastes extremely good! It's very authentic! It's a perfect companion for stir-frying. Especially when making Mapo Tofu, the flavor is simply amazing when cooked with it.

I recently went back into my account to look for this product which I bought a couple of years back. As stated in most of the reviews the entirety of the label is in Chinese, so there are not directions, or recipe suggestions and I didn't know what it was actually called. Some reviewers have stated that the product has a funky taste and there is no expiration date. That wasn't my experience. My jar had an expiration printed right on the red lid and there was a year between the purchase date and expiration date. It tastes pretty much like I would expect although I find it rather salty. Unfortunately, I really haven't used the product much, not knowing what to do with it. I don't particularly enjoy it's texture which is on the coarse/chunky side. If left that way I find that the large pieces are sort of hard and unpleasant. I bought the bottle on the recommendation of an Asian chef online who suggested chopping it finely and frying it before using. That's the only way I would recommend using it.

This for a Szechuan eggplant recipe. It’s great. Expensive, but great. If you’re in a pickle, you could substitute regular chili paste. But this year is the real deal from China.