All About That (Pantry) Sauce
Greetings, Friends of The Mala Market!
Tariff chaos has begun for us, but the good news is that after some turmoil at the port our most recent container slipped in without the new 20% tariff on China, or even the new 10% tariff, being assessed only the 15% to 25% original Trump tariffs. We won't be so lucky on the next one, but for now, we don't have to agonize over whether and how much to raise prices on our red-oil doubanjiang, small-mill sesame oil, Guangdong chow fun noodles, aged mandarin peel, cassia bark, smoked black cardamom or Chinese spice collection. Our apologies that not everything is back in stock. We source a few products including the yacai and zhacai pickles from a larger NY importer, and their containers have been held by Customs for many weeks. So hold tight! The supply chain from China is bound to get longer and bumpier, but we'll do our best to keep ours intact. On a happier note, though most of our heritage products are all-natural, we have always had a few that have preservatives. But you may have noticed that we are continually working to upgrade products to versions with "clean" labels when we can. Already this year we have launched an extra-pure Fujian oyster sauce, a 3-year fermented soybean ("black bean"), and now a red-oil Pixian doubanjiang (the younger version of chili bean paste) that now have no additives and no preservatives!
Onward and upward,
🌶 Taylor & Fongchong 🌶
P.S. This week's new recipes are both all about that sauce! And both sauces are made entirely from premium pantry ingredients you can always have on hand.
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