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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 for seafood "海鮮" as pronounced in Cantonese. 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. Despite the literal meaning of "seafood," Hoisin sauce does not 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.
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For a number of Chinese cuisine dishes, it is used for Peking duck, spring rolls, mu shu pork, popiah and barbecued pork.
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Hoisin sauce is also a popular condiment for phở; the sauce can be directly added into a bowl of phở by the eater, or can be used as a side dip for the meat of phở dishes. The sauce is also used for glazing broiled chicken.
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