Lap Cheong (Waxed Chinese Sausage)

Lap Cheong (waxed Chinese sausage) (24 January 2009)


Lap Cheong or Chinese sausage is preserved waxed meat. It is often sold by meat sellers, especially those specializing in preserved meat. You can often find larp cheong at Chinese specialty shops, including those selling fried foodstuff.

When I was small, I was not particularly fond of larp cheong. I found it to be too oily to my liking. However, as I grew up, I developed a taste for it, and find it particularly tasty when added to fried rice and char koey teow. Larp Cheong, unlike western sausages, are never taken whole - it would be too salty anyway - but always sliced and added to dishes.

Larp Cheong comes in several different sizes. The usual measures about 5 inches in length and is about 3/4 of an inch thick. There are also those measure a mere two inches in length, up to those as long as two feet with a girth of one-and-a-half inches. These are usually found at the roasted meat stall.

Another difference between larp cheong and western sausages is that larp cheong is often sold with a string handle for you to carry. They are hung in bunches at the stall, and you (or the seller) selects the one you want, which is cut from the bunch.

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