Eating in China
AI-generated ingredient illustration: golden-yellow rapeseed cooking oil in a bowl, an appearance example.

Rapeseed oil

菜油Càiyóu

A cooking oil made from rapeseed, ranging from golden yellow to yellow with a greenish cast.

Type
Cooking fats and oils

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

A cooking oil made from rapeseed, ranging from golden yellow to yellow with a greenish cast.

In the kitchen

Aozao fish-frying oil.

Used to fry fish for Aozao noodles. The dish’s red-oil name does not mean the oil contains chili.

Ask about this ingredient

这道菜里有菜油吗?

Does this dish contain Rapeseed oil?

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