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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jdvn1" data-source="post: 5192173" data-attributes="member: 26424">I've only seen it in Chinese grocery stores.When I went to the Chinese grocery store to get chinese sausage (I originally bought it for a Lunar New Year dinner thing I was co-cooking), I asked someone who worked there where I could find the chinese sausage. "Aisle 6, I was told."At aisle 6, I looked and look around... no sausage in sight. I saw oyster sauce, duck sauce, soy sauce... so I asked again. Again, I was told aisle 6. So, I looked again, thinking I had just missed it at one end or something...Then it struck me. They thought I said Chinese sauces.I laughed to myself, and went back to another worker to ask for the Chinese sausage. "No, not sauces," I had to clarify. "Sausage." The guy finally understood--his reaction, "Why do you want Chinese sausage?" He looked genuinely confused as to why a non-Chinese person would want such an ingredient.The New Year dinner went great. We started off with an appetizer of home-made steamed shrimp dumplings (dim sum style, one of my favorites), home-made egg drop soup, home-made kung pao chicken, home-made fried rice (traditional style, made with little to no soy sauce), and we even ended it with home-made green tea ice cream. Finding the right type of green tea powder for the ice cream was really tough, too! It took two or three trips to different grocery stores.</blockquote>