百子櫃 ›
A fine white starch, slaked with water to thicken. A Cantonese kitchen uses it for one other job as well: rubbing pork tripe or intestine with starch and coarse salt, which is what strips the mucus off.
Nature · neutral Flavour · sweet Meridians · spleen、stomach
A cooking material rather than a food-therapy ingredient.
Mix one part starch to two parts cold water.
Mostly milled locally in Australia, with Chinese and Thai imports at Asian grocers. In the supermarket baking aisle and at Asian grocers
Common at Asian grocers
Lo Fo Tong is cultural food-heritage reference, not medical advice. If you are pregnant, unwell or on medication, talk to your doctor or registered practitioner before changing what is in the pot.