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Five spice consists of ginger, cinnamon, cloves, fennel and star anise. There are a lot of varieties of spice blends for five spice which includes more than the 5 mentioned spices.
The ginger roots (rhizom) is the part mostly being used for cooking. The peel is beige and browinsh and the root itself is light yellow.
Vietnamese stew made on beef and carrots which has a nice, warm and complex taste that is eaten with (pho) rice noodles or light bread such as baguette.