Chorizo is a spicy and highly seasoned pork sausage that can refer to a Mexican or Spanish style sausage. Both are red in color, but that's where the similarities end. Spanish chorizo is usually a hard, cured sausage (like salami), seasoned with sweet, spicy, or smoked paprika. Mexican chorizo, on the other hand, is a fresh sausage whose red tone is due to hot red pepper.
Macau sausage, sometimes called Chinese sausage or Macau sausage, is a Philippine dry pork sausage. It is native to the Philippines and does not originate in Macau or China, despite the name. The ingredients of Macau sausage are identical to those of other sweet Philippine longganisas (longganisa hamonado), except for its dry texture and its use of star anise, anise or anise liqueur (aniseed), which gives it its distinctive aroma and its name. Sausage is raw meat seasoned with fennel or anise, resulting in a less spicy flavor.
The sausage is usually pork or turkey and is also popular as a breakfast item. Bolivian sausages are fried and combined with a salad made of tomato, lettuce, onion, boiled carrots and quirquia, mote and sliced bread soaked with chorizo fat. Like chorizo, different cultures and cultures have taken sausages and added their own variants to produce unique flavors that can really make a big impact. Canton's pink Chinese sausage, lap cheong, is a sweet and salty smoked pork sausage seasoned with rose water, rice wine and soy sauce. Singapore produces innovative Chinese sausages that are healthier than the traditional variety or varieties produced in Malaysia. The important Chinese Thai community uses it in several Chinese dishes, and also in some Thai dishes such as Yam Kun Chiang, a Thai salad made with this sausage. Longaniza can be eaten like a choripán (sandwich with chorizo) with bread at a barbecue in Chile and Peru. It's important to cook it completely and it's one of the main reasons why you shouldn't mix chorizo between recipes, since adding raw chorizo to a quick-cook recipe may not cook the meat at all. These other forms of chorizo also have unique flavors and ways of preparation, but they share the same basic properties of chorizo. The spice of chorizo lends itself best to those who prefer Latin food, while sausages are great for those looking for a mild addition.
Although this is not always the case, it is a general rule that fine sausages are sweet and short sausages are spicy. Mexican chorizo is popular for breakfast, as a snack on its own and when combined with several Latin foods. The different types of sausages available number in the thousands, so it would be impossible to list them all.
