Sweet noodle sauce

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Sweet noodle sauce (Simplified Chinese: 甜面酱; Traditional Chinese: 甜麵醬; pinyin: tiánmiànjiàng; also known as sweet bean sauce) is a thick, black-colored 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 dishes such as Peking Duck and zhajiang mian. It can be found in a typical Oriental market under different English names, but with a common Chinese name.

Sweet noodle sauce's Korean equivalent is the chunjang (hangul: 춘장; hanja: 春醬) used in the dish jajangmyeon (hangul: 자장면; hanja: 炸醬麵).

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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• Peking duck served with sweet noodle sauce (the dark sauce in the bowl on the upper left is sweet noodle sauce)
• Peking duck served with sweet noodle sauce (the dark sauce in the two small white dishes)
• Photo of sweet noodle sauce (the dark sauce in the white dish)
• Packaged sweet noodle sauce
• Sweet noodle sauce (on the left, mislabeled in English as hoisin sauce)

[edit] See also

• Zhajiang mian
• Hoisin sauce
• Jajangmyeon
• Peking duck