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From: chai@utflis.UUCP (Henry Chai)
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Subject: Re: What is hoisin sauce ?
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Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 18:05:56 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 31 18:05:56 1985
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In article <938@sdcsla.UUCP> wargo@sdcsla.UUCP (Dave Wargo) writes:
>One of the recipes call for hoisin sauce.  What is this elixer of
>life?  Is it hard to come by ? How is it pronounced ?

"Hoisin" means seafood in chinese, ('hoi' = sea, 'sin' (actually 'seen' in the
Cantonese dialect) = fresh), altho why it's called that I'll never know; 
it's rarely, if ever, served with seafood. 
(and it ain't made with seafood either!)
It is actually a kind of sweet soy paste, like a glorified soy sauce.
It should be in almost every chinese grocery store, and I don't think there
is anything that can substitute for it.
-- 
Henry Chai 
Faculty of Library and Information Science, U of Toronto
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