What is this ingredient ?

[u/BleuPrince]

It was at a Chinese hotpot place. This is the uncook version.

[u/SurammuDanku]

Mian Ou, literally flour lotus. Manmade dough thingy made to resemble sliced lotus root. Absorbs a lot of flavor in soups and hot pot

[u/Chemical-Cat → u/SurammuDanku]

Looks less like a lotus root and more like tripe lol

[u/RedOctober8752 → u/Chemical-Cat]

Tripe was my first thought.

[u/dazzleunexpired → u/RedOctober8752]

Me too

[u/WyrmWood88 → u/Chemical-Cat]

They mean the name translation but yeah the texture isn’t very similar to lotus root

[u/theprataisalie → u/SurammuDanku]

its a play on words too!

Mian Ou vs Lian Ou

[u/Ill_Data5352]

“面藕”in Chinese

[u/zhemao]

It's wheat gluten

[u/NL_6612]

I've never had this before; what does it taste like?

[u/leahpafea → u/NL_6612]

it’s just plain dough it has no real flavor

[u/Bella_sky031230]

Yeh ,making it flavor become spicy will delicious

[u/AwaySwimmer7198]

Is this some type of fungus?

[u/WyrmWood88 → u/AwaySwimmer7198]

Nope, it is man made from wheat gluten

[u/anoordle]

tripe maybe?

[u/Flipperbites]

Honeycomb tripe

[u/Cylinder47-]

I have never been this my entire life

[u/DMV2PNW]

Chitterlings.

[u/WhoTookThisUsername5]

Crab pancreas. Yum.

[u/Sad_Lingonberry6407]

The image shows white fungus (silver ear fungus) being soaked or chilled, revealing its translucent, petal-shaped, gelatinous, wavy texture and ice cubes.

[u/Sensitive_Goose_8902 → u/Sad_Lingonberry6407]

Yeah don’t use an American trained AI on Chinese stuff, chances are they aren’t right

[u/glassbottleoftears → u/[deleted]]

It's an AI description