Usually $9 on Amazon and $15 at your local Asian Grocery store, this LKK XO sauce seems like it's been priced with a trailing .88 by someone familiar with Asian customs in Coles' marketing department.
The Coles website reflects a $1.82 saving per jar, but I don't think it's usually available when it's that price.
Probably not available in all stores.
XO sauce $6 only, I just bought one from asian grocery store, damn it
Thanks OP, XOXOXO
Yep, that's what the western propaganda used to say during the cold war - Stalin equals Hitler, fascism equals socialism. Is that still a thing? I hoped people became more educated now.
ironically the hammer and sickle represents worker solidarity among skilled blue collar and agricultural trades
Worker solidarity my learned friend. Not the solidarity between a hired labour and business owner, (fascism). Which, according to communism, is not possible.
@Musiclover: Please educate yourself more; Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen.
But I guess you will only realise this when it is too late, and you are not working for an employer,, but instead, the state will nicely tell you exactly what you cannot do. Maybe, also certain things that you can do ;)
One should be banned for having this picture anywhere in public eye. Guess the cancel culture needs some education.
@TheTruthTeller: I appreciate the passion. More than a million, wow. Liberal 'historians" usually count criminals and the executioners who were also punished in that number. And repressions are unqiue to socialism and never happend in capitalism, right?
Hitler killed around 27 million in the Soviet Union most of which were civilians. But surely, communism is very dangerous for the capital so you should tell scary old wives' tales about it.
@TheTruthTeller: The difference is that socialism is far less inherently violent than fascism as an ideology. The Soviets failed to live up to their decent ideals and became evil, the Nazis had evil ideals and lived up to them.
We westerners killed hundreds of millions of natives while we were under constitutional monarchies or other democratic systems. Does that make democracy evil? No.
@Jigram: I feel like the pure idea of socialism is great where we share things equally but let's be real you gotta put a lot of trust in the government which I'm not willing to do.
@RetroMetro: Yeah it's not my preferred way of doing things (although state capitalism under Lenin went pretty well), I'm just saying it's nowhere near as evil as fascism and equating the hammer and sickle to the swastika is stupid.
There are even fascists who would find the swastika offensive. Even fascism as an ideology doesn't really advocate for what the Nazis did (Mussolini was much less genocidal, for example).
@Jigram: Not sure if Lenin under state capitalism did well. He still killed a lot of people and had labour camps
@RetroMetro: Everybody killed a lot of people. If that’s your metric for what government form is good or bad then you just hate everything.
Then maybe you’re an anarchist but the closest we ever got to anarchic societies was in the French and Spanish communes and guess what… they were violent.
@RetroMetro: Government should represent the people (real democracy) not corporations (money dictatorship).
Socialism's goal is not to share equally (Western propaganda) but give opportunity to everyone (not by inheritance, prestige or corruption as with previous systems).
The principle is: From each according to its ABILITY, to each according to its NEED (to support being more productive for the community, not to possess more for the individual like in Capitalism).
@taki: I see what you mean but human nature always finds it's way to corruption. Having everything regulated by the government can quickly lead to corruption within. Look at North Korea its the worst place to live right now. Not saying capitalism is perfect but I'll rather live in these conditions than to be constantly eyed by the government
@Jigram: The consider Western propaganda (#1 tool) of Democracy which is practically Money dictatorship.
@TheTruthTeller: Western propaganda has brainwashed your logic. Churchill has killed as many, only to protect imperial exploitive system.
Progress, like freedom from British rule, was very deadly in the US (now going the opposite way & killing millions of non Westerners)
@taki: Hope you guys will enjoy the shackles. Coming from a person who grew up in a communist country - you will regret your ignorance, mark my words.
Do you get the same feeling when you look at the US flag? The union jack and thus the Australian flag? Mass deaths, starvation, murder and disposession all also happen(ed) under those flags
We should have a rule on Oz bargain no down voting unless you explain why.
@SpainKing: Rule is only for voting on deals, not for comments which is what RetroMetro was referring to.
How do you eat this sauce?
Straight from the jar like Nutella.
Add a spoonful to your 2 min noodles.
xo fried rice is pretty common and easy
Use a spoonful or more to mix in cooked noodles. Same to stirred fried seafood, chicken,tofu dishes etc. If you are not sure, try to order some dishes with XO sauce in Chinese restaurant then you know how it is used and also find out if you like its taste or not.
Hook it up directly to your veins with an IV.
Do a line and snort it, this stuff is like crack but with msg.
Orally
Make lobster with it.
"it's been priced with a trailing .88 by someone familiar with Asian customs in Coles' marketing department."
Perhaps not familiar enough - an Asian friend told me the number 5 means no or not, and "." reads like pick or want. So while 8 may mean getting rich, 5.88 is actually "don't want to be rich"!
This comment is… wow
Not sure why the neg as you are right. Anyway, in this case, there is a decimal point in the price, so you can read it as "Hmmmm (5). Rich Rich ! (8)" Well I am in ! Who doesn't want to be rich rich ??" :)
Actually the way the adults the around me took the 5 'wu' was as a 'wo', as in 'me' = me getting rich rich
My mum bought phone sims for the fam once and came home with the number 5454, wosi wosi, I die I die, and my dad hated it so much…
If you're mando it's wu, if you're canto it's ńg.
Therefore canto wins/rigged. In fact canton should have been the national language only got defeated by small number of votes some historical books says or rumours suggested otherwise
Westerners know to make money, the others how to live better (with friends).
So, no to money, Yes to rich life.
However a dollar lower $4.88 is worse (death) or you prefer to be $1 more like $6.88 (keep getting rich, but cost you more?)
Taste nice with Fried Rice!
That's why it's called LEE KUM. :P
Golden lucky sauce price!!
How much do people recommend using in each dish?
As least half jar to stir fry a dish for mind tastes …strong taste would take a whole jar…
80g is nothing..
Teaspoon is enough, its rich in flavour.
80g jar only has around 4 teaspoons…
I like stronger favour. What's the point of using it if you cannot taste much of it..
mmm… KUM
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Is that for the people getting unhealthy reactions to your avatar pic?
Apparently having a red background on your DP affects the quality of your deal you've posted. They'll wakeup eventually and see the bargain for what it is
Do Coles/Woolies sell this chilli sauce. ANyone here uses it? Do you buy at Asian grocer and is it worth going there for it
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-25/tao-huabi-laogama-chi…
LGM is sold at Coles and Woolies, but not all varieties. I just go to the Asian supermarket and buy it in the jumbo jar.
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Certain Coles sell them never see it in SA Woolies…only around $4/5 dollar but it is on/off shelf items…
I personally prefer the Lee Kum Kee chili oil more..
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/828060/lee…
Probably a staple for most Asian households! Lately I've been really into their 'crispy chilli oil' version, way more fragrant and tasty than all their other flavours. Ones with peanuts in them are also great. About $5-7 for a 210-280g jar
Been looking for a different tasty aromatic chilli oil (with all the bits in them) though, everything I've tried so far has been bitter, sour, or unenjoyably deathly spicy
Is the 'crispy chilli oil' a Laoganma product and what makes it crispy?
I see Laoganma also have a black bean chilli oil at my local Coles: https://shop.coles.com.au/a/the-pines/product/laoganma-chill…
Yeah there's a bajillion varieties: https://www.laoganmausa.com/products
Spicy Chili Crisp is the one they're talking about, I buy the 700g jar.
In Australia they even sell one with chicken in it: https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/67551/lao-…
Here's another site which talks about other varieties: https://heated.medium.com/tasting-all-of-lao-gan-mas-chili-c…
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Chiana feeds the world with toxic food
made in chynnnnna
Why are people complaining it's made in China? That's exactly where I'd like my XO sauce made. Heck if it were made in Australia, it'd be $25 at 50% off and taste like dirty dishwater.
Truth bomb!
Truth bomb: the people were referring to Hong Kong, not Australia
LKK should come from HK.
Not sure if it is still made in HK…I am not home I cannot pull it out from my pantry to look for it.
But nowadays they make HK made products label as Made in China…
The only product marked as made in HK is the OG, the premium oyster sauce.
HK imports have been required to be labelled as China these days.
I’m pretty sure that requirement was only for US.
I don’t know if it made more sense to have just replaced all labelling as made in China, but I guess it would be to avoid different batches with different labels.
@squaredonut: Yeah.. they made a decision to do it across all products to all areas as just "made in China" these days. It was a big issue in HK before when they forced them to do this, but have no choice.
@bchliu: Yep I know. This is actually quite a devaluing move for them. Much like people prefer to buy something that says Made in Japan, a lot of people would prefer to buy consumables that says Made in Hong Kong over Made in China. Naturally that makes sense due to the track record of other consumables coming out of China. People obviously are more conscious about things you buy that you eat.
Personally, I just don't know if something is from HK anymore, which really sucks.
@squaredonut: Aside from the fact that there's a lot of progress made to standardise the quality of foods in China, the main thing about this is that at the end of the day: It's still Lee Kum Kee brand that you are buying and that the brand ownership still governs their own quality control at the end of the day. Unless it's a fake product, then Lee Kum Kee is ultimately responsible for their products regardless if it is made in HK or in mainland China. They are multi-billion dollar HK/Chinese company and I highly doubt they will put their brand reputation on the line for selling bad products as such.
@bchliu: I think the issue with China is that their scale is so large that even if 1% of the population does something wrong, it's still quite significant, so despite their efforts of clamping down and ensuring quality, it's the 1% that will continue to be the risk to me.
E.g. The gutter oil thing is something that you definitely can't tell if they have managed to trample out completely over there.
@bchliu: Most people still not trusting specific foods manufactured in mainland China. Hygiene and quality is not there. Remember that melamine milk powder incident that still sits in people's hearts
@neonlight: As for the milk powder problem - every country learns from their own mistakes and when you have over a billion people that requires this to be fixed, it gets fixed very swiftly with most of the culprits dead or behind bars. How long it will take for that industry to fix itself is yet to be seen, but there's a whole bunch of governance in place these days for manufacturing / production of foods these days.
Most people still not trusting specific foods manufactured in mainland China
@neonlight Most people ?
I think you mean some small percentage of people. Most people don't even look at the country of origin, never mind make decisions based on it !
@squaredonut: Unfortunately that's how it works. China was to consume HK hence the word handover is actually taken over… And communist works like that. Some day perhaps made in Taiwan might also become made in China and that's exactly what they want to achieve
Made in China has not had good reputation on food. But electronics not food consumption goods are ok
@bchliu: Yeah they got no choice like national security law. You might get prosecuted for labelling made in HK rather than China
@neonlight: It's nothing to do with the national security law at all. Mainland didn't "force" HK foods to be specifically labelled as "Product of China" - it was Trump era that forced this to put HK people offside with China in the first place. Most companies made a business decision to do one type of packaging only regardless to which ever part in the world and it's just all "Product of China" from that point on.
National security laws are basically there to stop idiots from colluding with foreign powers to undermine social stability. EVERY country has these laws - you think the Aus Gov wouldn't do anything to you if ASIO profiled you to be "in collusion" with China to remove their government? Thats BS and every country has exactly the same laws.
I buy some made in taiwan stuff like their pickled green beans…one day it seems like theyll be forced too :(
If you didn't know LKK the original brand from 60s, 70s, 80s were from HK. But from late 90s all from China. They moved production to mainland. Likely to do with lowering costs and also handover since 97
So true…Lol…
think the concerns by some are food control laws and QC …. melamine in a baby formulae, what nobody checks samples, sewerage sprayed on berries which are then sold in australia and caused salmonella, guess question is why are there byers and shops sending australian vitamins and a baby formulae to china …..can’t be taste ……
buy yeah if it’s out of singapore it costs more and from japan stuff is crazy expensive
You're assuming that China doesn't change in the ten years since those incidents? Most of those criminals behind those cases were dealt with pretty swiftly. Since then, there's been a lot of pressure to put on higher quality controls everywhere for anything they produce. You can't exactly use the same set of distrust from ten years ago to be applied today, or for the future. If that is the case, then nothing can move forward without progress.
However if everyone thinks the same then there is no market for daigous. And noone would send panadol back to China before they were banned.
People think Aussie panadol is better quality than local in Mainland. And lack of pain killers also causes demand
Dont quite agree on the taste part but the price is pretty spot on
https://www.providoor.com.au/product/golden-century-nsw-xo-s…
40 bucks
Wow.. Didn't know "Golden Century" delivers now after they closed up?
Golden century got bought out and moved sites
Providoor is the online delivery site… think fancy version of doordash
lol
Extra 60% to the price if advertised "Proudly Australian Owned and Made". Who TF cares.
taste like dirty dishwater
… as opposed to being made with dirty dishwater in China
reputable brands like LGM and LKK are fine, but even amongst asian people theres a certain distrust of food products that come out of china
There are "scandals" every year of chinese companies doing some unethical things to make their food products, and one of the reasons why chinese people like buying baby formula from countries like Australia.
Tons of food safety violations every year
Thanks comrade
They were $6 since Dec in SA & Vic. Save $.12!