A legume with a thin and crisp, translucent green pod. The seeds insides are small and tender. Popular in Chinese cooking, they are also called Chinese snow peas.

A cutting technique involving quick, heavy blows of the knife to cut food into pieces.

Japanese meaning "one flavored chili pepper", it's simply ground red chili pepper.

A Japanese cooking technique of deep frying various foods (e.g. chicken), whereby small pieces of the food are marinated, then lightly coated with flour or starch, then deep fried.