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Hoisin sauce, or haixian sauce, is a Chinese dipping sauce. The word hoisin is a romanization of the Chinese word for seafood
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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.
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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.
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