Eating in China
Sausage casing ingredient on a plain plate.

Sausage casing

肠衣Chángyī

A tubular outer membrane filled with sausage mixture before heating and smoking.

Type
Wrappers and casings

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

A tubular outer membrane filled with sausage mixture before heating and smoking.

In the kitchen

Holds the filling of Harbin red sausage.

Neither the casing material nor its animal species can be inferred from the filling.

Ask about this ingredient

这道菜里有肠衣吗?

Does this dish contain Sausage casing?

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