Duck sauce

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Duck sauce
Packets of duck sauce
Traditional Chinese	酸梅醬
Simplified Chinese	酸梅酱
Literal meaning	sour prune sauce
Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin suan1 mei2 jiang4 Cantonese (Yue) - Jyutping syun1 mui4 zoeng3

Duck sauce is a condiment with a sweet and sour flavor and a translucent orange appearance similar to a thin jelly. Offered at Chinese-American restaurants, it is used as a dip for deep-fried dishes such as duck, chicken, fish, spring rolls, egg rolls, or with rice or noodles. It is often provided in plastic packets along with soy sauce, mustard, hot sauce or red chili powder. In the New England area it is usually light brown and is commonly made from apples.^{[citation needed]}

Ingredients

It may be made of apricots, plums, or peaches added to sugar, vinegar, ginger and chilis. It is used in more traditional Chinese cuisine in the form of "plum sauce".

See also

• Plum sauce
• Sweet and sour sauce
• Hoisin sauce
• Siu haau sauce (primary Chinese BBQ sauce)
• Soy sauce