Strange flavor references the unusual yet artful combination of a wide variety of ingredients to make a perfectly balanced sauce. There are the building blocks of málà in there—both numbing Sichuan peppercorns and spicy chilies—along with sweet sugar, salty soy sauce, nutty sesame paste and oil, and sour vinegar.

Though strange flavor is often conflated with bang bang chicken, a dish that uses strange flavor sauce, it's good for more than coating bang bang's cold poached chicken shreds. In this video, the Chinese food expert and author of The Food of Sichuan Fuchsia Dunlop walks us through the basics of strange flavor, and demonstrates how to make it yourself at home.

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