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hoisin

British

/ ˌhɔɪˈsɪn /

noun

Also called: Peking sauce. (in Chinese cookery) a sweet spicy reddish-brown sauce made from soya beans, sugar, vinegar, and garlic

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Etymology

Origin of hoisin

C20: from Cantonese

Example Sentences

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When it comes to cheap pho, many customers drown their bowl in Sriracha and hoisin sauce.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 22, 2024

Sheridan butcher’s, the co-owner John Sinclair was selling a commemorative coronation sausage, with pork, plums, ginger and hoisin sauce.

From New York Times • May 1, 2023

She paired the lotus root with charred Brussels sprouts and added a hoisin vinaigrette, taking her mother's suggestions of the crisp freshness the rhizome offered and playing with it to make her own creation.

From Salon • May 26, 2022

If you don’t like your sesame noodles spicy, use hoisin sauce in place of the chile oil.

From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2022

Next to him, a girl dips a piece of chicken into a small saucer of hoisin sauce while her mother cleans her teeth with a toothpick.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

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