Other Vegetable Oils

Some of the cheaper vegetable oils are available in China: these include rapeseed, cottonseed, soybean, safflower, and sunflower oils. They are light in colour and bland in taste and so can be used in cooking, although they tend to smoke rather quickly, making them less suitable for the high temperatures required for stir-frying and deep-frying. In China, they are used mainly by food stalls and the cheaper restaurants. They are quite edible but simply not as good nor as effective as peanut oil.