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| Hoisin sauce from Hong Kong in a 567-gram (20 oz) squeeze bottle | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 海鮮醬 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 海鲜酱 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | seafood sauce | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Vietnamese | tương đen | ||||||||||||||||||
Hoisin sauce, or haixian sauce, is a Chinese dipping sauce. The word hoisin is a romanization of the Chinese word for seafood "海鮮" as pronounced in Cantonese.
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Mandarin-style hoisin sauce ingredients include starches such as sweet potato, wheat or rice, and water, sugar, soybeans, white distilled vinegar, salt, garlic, red chili peppers, and sometimes preservatives or coloring agents. Traditionally, hoisin sauce is made using sweet potato. Despite the literal meaning of "seafood", hoisin sauce does not contain fish.
A number of Chinese cuisine dishes such as spring rolls, mu shu pork, popiah, Peking duck and barbecued pork use the sauce. It is especially common for Cantonese cuisine flavoring.[1]
Hoisin sauce is also a popular condiment for phở; the sauce can be directly added into a bowl of phở by the diner, or can be used as a side dip for the meat of phở dishes. The sauce is also used for glazing broiled chicken.