1.   A chef at one may use different spices from another, reflecting traces of his regional origin.

2.   Both the aroma and the taste are intensely flowery and spicy, just like gewurztraminer, but with different flowers and different spices.

3.   Different spices complement different meats.

4.   Different spices and foods match not only personality types but ages, he says.

5.   It was a big learning process to understand the different spices of India and Malaysia and the culture of Chinese food.