Finally, give your coarsely chopped fresh garlic cloves, coarsely chopped fresh ginger root and whole fermented black beans a quick final chopping to get them all to the final size (about the size of 1/2 to 1/4 of the size of the whole fermented black bean). The chopping of the black beans is important to bring out the flavor of the fermented beans which otherwise can stay inside the bean skins during cooking.
Fermented Black Beans, Fresh Ginger, Fresh Garlic Chopped