Chinese Five Spice Seasoning

If you want to add an Asian accent to a dish, there are three ingredients, any one of which will do the job: Hoisin sauce, sesame oil, and five spice powder.
You can use five-spice powder in many different ways in Chinese and Taiwanese cooking, including adding it to stew meat or poultry, making it part of a marinade, as a spice rub when roasting foods, and as a seasoning in the breading for fried foods.
Ingredients
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon.
1 teaspoon crushed anise seed or 1 star anise, ground.
1/4 teaspoon crushed fennel seed.
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper (or 1/4 teaspoon Szechuan pepper)
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves.