What's The Difference Between Regular Ginger and The Ginger You Get At Chinese Food Restaurants?

Question

Ginger root is white, so do they dye the ginger they give you at the chinese food place orange?

Answer 1

Most of the Asian restaurants peel and cut ginger into sticks. The ginger sticks are soaked in sugar and lime juice for four or more hours. The enzymes in the ginger make it look slightly pinkish. It gives the ginger a mild and sharp taste. It really works for morning sickness also.

Answer 2

If you're thinking of Japanese restaraunts, where you get ginger with your sushi, that's because it's pickled, not fresh, ginger. Pickling it turns it pinkish.

Answer 3

Ginger root comes in three different colors depending upon variety. Where I live (Mexico City) its always golden yellow. It can also be white or red (orange). It doesn't seem to matter to the taste or the fantastic health value of ginger what color it is so don't worry! Just eat lots of it because its delicious and very healthy!

Answer 4

Chinese sometimes use Galangal (not sure on the spelling)which is a more  sharper tasting ginger than the ginger you might pick up at the grocery store.  If you really get into gingers Galangal is technically not a ginger and it comes in major and minor forms.

Answer 5

Ginger is basically.. has yellowish flesh...  In Chinese Cuisine... we used 3 types of ginger

1. Fresh Ginger which is crispy and nice taste (all occasion)

2. Old Ginger which has very hot taste (for neutralising seafood smell or to make "hot" the dish)

3. Blue Ginger which has bluish skin (used for braise dark soy sauce dishes)

Another type is seasoned ginger which will made the flesh alittle pinkish due to ginger's own property. Is usually not use for cooking instead it's served as pickle or commonly served together with century eggs to neutralise the smell of the egg... It can also be served as t*t-bits snacks too...

Answer 6

Gari (ginger)

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GariGari (ガリ, Gari?) is a type of tsukemono (pickled vegetables). It is sweet, thinly sliced young ginger that has been marinated inside a solution of sugar and vinegar. Gari is often served and eaten after sushi, and is sometimes called sushi ginger. Although many brands of commercially produced gari are artificially colored pink (in some cases by either E124 and/or beet juice) to promote sales, the natural product typically has a pale yellow to slightly pink hue from the pickling process.