Dried sausage
Lap cheong
A sweet dried Chinese sausage, air-dried rather than fermented. No US standard of identity and no entry in the EU register, so this site has no published specification to give for it.
What this page is built from
- Protected names
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- US standards of identity
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- Composition rows
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- Named by FSIS
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- Buying guide
- yes
This page exists because these joins exist. A class name that joins to no register entry, no standard, no composition row and no buying guide would not have a page.
US standard of identity
No section of 9 CFR part 319 defines this product. That is worth knowing: it means the name carries no compositional guarantee in the United States, and two products sold under it may have been made quite differently.
Buying it
Chinese dried sausage, sweetened and usually containing rice wine and soy. It is dried but not fermented to a low pH, which is why it is sold to be cooked rather than eaten as it is, and why its shelf stability rests on water activity rather than on acidification.
What to read on the label. Sold to be cooked. Read the ingredient list for the sweetener and the wine, which are the two things that vary most between makers.
Worth repeating in a buying context: no section of 9 CFR part 319 defines this product, so in the United States the word on the front of the pack is a marketing term. The compositional statements that are regulated are the ones on the back, in the ingredient list and the nutrition panel.
This is not a protected designation. The listing below is a product of this type, not a registered name. The register entries for this class are listed above and none of them is what is linked here.
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Listing
- Lowest new, checked 2026-09-04
- $47.50
- Brand
- Kam Yen Jan
- ASIN
- B09W3ZWMKF
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Register data: eAmbrosia, the EU geographical indications register, retrieved 2026-09-04. Composition: USDA FoodData Central, retrieved 2026-09-04, All values are per 100 g of the food as described.