Every Lao Gan Ma, explained.

Lao Gan Ma is more than just the chili crisp. We wanted to introduce all 17 Lao Gan Ma products - teach you a bit about the background in the context of Guizhou cuisine, and do a little taste test with rice.

I know Steph promised LGM recipes from their website in the outro... unfortunately this is only in Chinese. Their USA website did not translate, our bad:

http://55917537.m.weimob.com/weisite/...

0:00 - Introduction
0:50 - Fried Chili In Oil
1:38 - Chili Oil with Black Bean
2:11 - Spicy Chili Crisp
3:48 - "The Big Three" Taste Test
5:02 - Hot Chili Sauce, San Ding
6:03 - Chicken Chili Oil
7:36 - Chili Oil with Pork Slivers
8:14 - Bean Chili with Pork Mince
8:47 - Beef Black Bean Chili Oil
9:28 - Mushroom Chili Oil
10:16 - Fermented Soybean Chili
11:12 - Chili Oil Beancurd
11:46 - Spicy Bean Paste
12:31 - Pickled Chili
13:17 - Tomato Chili Sauce
13:58 - Spicy Salted Cabbage
14:42 - Hotpot Bases
15:26 - Outro

#1 - Fried Chili In Oil 油辣椒
https://www.amazon.com/Lao-Gan-Ma-Lao...

The classic Guizhou chili oil.

#2 - Chili Oil with Black Bean 豆豉风味油辣椒
Alt names: Black Bean Sauce
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Bean-Sau...

The OG Lao Gan Ma, most popular in China.

#3 - Spicy Chili Crisp 香辣脆油辣椒
Alt names: Crispy Chili in Oil

https://www.amazon.com/Lao-Gan-Ma-Spi...
https://themalamarket.com/collections...

The most popular Lao Gan Ma product abroad.

#4 - Hot Chili Sauce 辣三丁油辣椒
Alt Names: Triple spice in jar
https://www.amazon.com/Laoganma-Chili...

Our personal favorite.

#5 - Chicken Chili Oil 风味鸡油辣椒
Alt Names: Chicken Flavour Chili Oil with Tofu
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Laoganma-Raj...

This one is unavailable in the west, likely because of import restrictions. In the UK and Europe they seem get around the restriction by removing the chicken pieces and swapping in tofu jerky. Unavailable in NA.

#6 - Chili oil with Pork Slivers 干煸肉丝油辣椒

Seems to be mostly unavailable in the West. Found this on Amazon, however:
https://www.amazon.com/Lingduan%EF%BC...

#7 - Bean Chili with Pork Mince 肉丝豆豉油辣椒
Alt Names: Granny Pork mince.

Seems to be unavailable in the West, outside of Australia - https://springvale.kflsupermarket.com...

#8 - Beef Black Bean Chili Oil 精制牛肉末油辣椒

Seems to be mostly unavailable in the West. Out of stock on Amazon at time of posting:
https://www.amazon.com/laoganma-Lao-G...

#9 - Oil Chili Condiment with Mushroom 香菇油辣椒
Alt Names: Mushroom Oil Chili

This one seems very available in the west.

https://www.amazon.com/LaoGanMa-Sauce...

https://www.walmart.com/ip/NineChef-B...

#10 - Fermented Soybean Chili 风味水豆豉

There have been reports of this product at TNT in Canada. I cannot find it online, however.

#11 - Chili Oil Beancurd 红油腐乳

This one is also very available in the West. Nice furu product.

https://www.amazon.com/LaoGanMa-Chili...

#12 - Spicy Bean Paste 香辣酱

https://www.ihomehouseware.com/produc...

https://www.walmart.com/ip/NineChef-B...

#13 - Pickled Chili 糟辣椒

This is at many Chinese supermarkets, such as 99 Ranch and TNT, but is harder to find online.

https://www.ihomehouseware.com/produc...

https://www.yamibuy.com/en/p/laoganma...

#14 - Tomato Chili Sauce 番茄辣酱

There have been sightings of this product at Chinese supermarkets in the West. A little hard to find online.

https://www.amazon.ca/Lao-Gan-Ma-Toma...

https://www.ihomehouseware.com/produc...

#15 - Spicy Salted Cabbage 香辣菜
Alt Names: Salt Chili Vegetable

https://www.amazon.com/GanMA-Salt-Chi...

https://www.walmart.com/ip/NineChef-B...

#16 - Zaola Hotpot Base

Seems to be unavailable in the West.

#17 - Douchi Hotpot Base

https://www.amazon.com/Lao-Laoganma-S...

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