Sweet noodle sauce
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Sweet noodle sauce (Chinese: 甜麵醬; pinyin: tiánmiànjiàng; also known as sweet bean sauce) is a thick Chinese sauce composed of ground fermented yellow soybeans (that is, what is left of the soybeans after the fermentation of soybeans into soy sauce), flour, sugar, and salt. Similar to the better known hoisin sauce, it is used in Peking Duck and fried sauce noodles (炸醬麵, zhájiàngmiàn). It can be found in a typical Oriental market under different English names, but with a common Chinese name.
As an analogy, soy sauce is to the ancient Roman fish sauce garum as sweet noodle sauce is to the ancient Roman paste alec.
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