Five spice
Five-spice powder is a spice mixture of five or more spices—commonly star anise, cloves, Chinese cinnamon, Sichuan pepper, and fennel seeds—used predominantly in almost all branches of Chinese cuisine. The five flavors of the spices reflects the five traditional Chinese elements (wood, fire, earth, metal, and water) and flavors (sweet, bitter, sour, salty, and savory).[better source needed] The addition of eight other spices creates thirteen-spice powder [zh] (十三香), which is used less commonly. While there are many variants, a common mix is:
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