If you’re entertaining a female, serve a dessert that smells like , such as anise cake. Studies have indicated these aromas increase blood flow south in the respective sexes.
A quarter teaspoon works out to roughly one third of a star anise… and while you could break it apart, we usually just grind up a whole one and reserve the excess.
So with that out of the way, we'll be frying this with one inch of crushed ginger, about 5 inches of that Dacong, so you can sub with 5 scallion whites, and two star anise.