Stews are rich in food, mainly vegetables, meat, beans and other ingredients.

Vegetables usually include cabbage, cowpea, beans, cabbage, pepper, eggplant and potatoes. Meat is mainly pork, ribs and chicken. Beans include tofu, tofu skin, yuba, corn, mushrooms, fungus and vermicelli.

Chaos stew is very common in Northeast China, and it is a very common home-cooked stew. Sometimes a dish has nearly 10 kinds of ingredients. Stewed pork with cabbage vermicelli is a famous stew.