Chinese Five Spice Powder 五香粉 wǔ xiāng fěn

Star Anise dominates the aroma and taste of five spice. It is widely used in China and other parts of Asia. Suitable in fruit dishes, stews, red meat. 

Ingredients: 
Cinnamon, 
Fennel, 
Pimento, 
Aniseed, 
Cloves, 
Pepper.



From wiki, a common mix is:

• Star anise (bajiao, 八角)
• Cloves (dingxiang, 丁香)
• Chinese Cinnamon (rougui, 肉桂)
• Sichuan pepper (huajiao, 花椒)
• Fennel seeds (xiaohuixiang, 小茴香)

Five spice may be used with fatty meats such as pork and duck. It is used as a spice rub for chicken, duck, pork and seafood, in red cooking recipes, or added to the breading for fried foods.^[2]Five spice is used in recipes for Cantonese roasted duck, as well as beef stew. It is used as a marinade for Vietnamese broiled chicken. The five-spice powder mixture has followed the Chinese diaspora and has been incorporated into other national cuisines throughout Asia.

Although this mixture is used in restaurant cooking, many Chinese households do not use it in day-to-day cooking. In Hawaii, some restaurants place a shaker of the spice on each patron's table. A seasoned salt can be easily made by dry-roasting common salt with five-spice powder under low heat in a dry pan until the spice and salt are well mixed.