Hoisin sauce

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Hoisin sauce

Hoisin sauce from Hong Kong in a 20-centiliter squeeze bottle

Chinese name

Traditional Chinese:

海鮮醬

Simplified Chinese:

海鲜酱

Literal meaning:

seafood sauce

Transliterations
Mandarin
- Hanyu Pinyin:	hǎixiānjiàng
Yue (Cantonese)
- Jyutping:	hoi2 sin1 zeong3
- IPA:	=hɔɪ₃₅ sɪn₅₅ tsœŋ₃₅

Vietnamese name

Vietnamese:

tương đen

Hoisin sauce, or Haixian Sauce, (hǎixiānjiàng) also called suckling pig sauce, is a Chinese dipping sauce. The word Hoisin is a romanization of the Chinese word "海鮮" as pronounced in Cantonese. Despite the literal meaning of "seafood," Hoisin sauce does not actually contain fish. It is similar to the sweet noodle sauce made from fermented soybeans, but has the added ingredients of garlic, vinegar, and chili peppers. Additionally, it tastes less pungent than sweet noodle sauce. Mandarin-style Hoisin sauce ingredients include water, sugar, soybeans, white distilled vinegar, rice, salt, wheat flour, garlic, and red chili peppers, and several preservatives and coloring agents. Traditionally, Hoisin sauce is made using sweet potato.

1 Regional
- 1.1 Chinese
- 1.2 Vietnam
2 Notable references
3 External links
4 See also

[edit] Regional

[edit] Chinese

For a number of Chinese cuisine dishes, it is used for Peking duck, spring rolls, mu shu pork, popiah and barbecued pork.

[edit] Vietnam

Hoisin sauce is also a popular condiment for phở or for glazing broiled chicken.

[edit] Notable references

On a Chinese-food themed episode of Emeril Live, Emeril Lagasse used hoisin sauce in unorthodox ways, calling it "Chinese Bar-be-que Sauce", though it should not be confused with the more official Chinese barbecue sauces.