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Chu Hou Paste substitutes

Out of chu hou paste? These are its closest flavor matches, ranked by Epicure's flavor-compound model — the percentage is how near each sits to chu hou paste in flavor space. Fermented Tofu is closest at 57%.

  1. 01
    Fermented Tofu
    57% flavor match
  2. 02
    Dark Soy Sauce
    51% flavor match
  3. 03
    Sand Ginger
    49% flavor match
  4. 04
    Tsao Ko
    49% flavor match
  5. 05
    Light Soy Sauce
    46% flavor match
  6. 06
    Char Siu Sauce
    45% flavor match
  7. 07
    Braising Liquid
    45% flavor match

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How we choose these

Each match is the nearest neighbour to chu hou paste in Epicure, a food-science model mapping the aroma compounds of ~1,790 ingredients across 4 million recipes. The percentage is their flavor-space similarity. Taste as you go — substitutes shift texture and intensity too.

Flavor data: Epicure (Radzikowski & Chen, 2026), arXiv:2605.22391, CC-BY-4.0.