I like to cook and frequently use Asian spices and ingredients but I will buy NOTHING that is produced in the PRC. The horror stories about what health authorities have found in everything from toothpaste to children’s formula to frozen nibbles imported from China into places like Japan make the dog food scares we have had here mild. They have no qualms about poisoning their own people, much less foreigners or their pets.
Do you use the crushed fresh garlic in the little flat jars when you cook? It is hard to find one of those that wasn’t made in China.