Arri London wrote:
>
> "Jean B." wrote:
>> Arri London wrote:
>>> We ate at the same Vietnamese restaurant that started the Sauce Mystery.
>>> Mystery solved!
>>>
>>> It's plum sauce! Not something I've ever bought. But having looked at
>>> sauces in the Asian supermarkets prior to lunch, the colour is correct
>>> and it would be sweet enough. Given that it's dispensed in squeezy
>>> bottles, guessing that it is supplied by the barrel full
>>>
>>> <cue up 'Who Are You?'>
>> really! Was it brown, Arri?
>
> It was brown and opaque.
>
> The sauce I had was brown--and the
>> last time my daughter had [Chinese] plum sauce, it was clear,
>> kind-of honey-colored. I am going to have to traipse through the
>> markets again--and ask.
>
> The honey-coloured sauce is often called 'duck sauce', which we do buy.
> The plum sauce we saw in the shops was dark; the duck sauce lighter
> coloured.
>> You get a gold star!
>
> TY! Now I can move up to CSI 2 LOL.
> Could have had a job as a CSI locally. Unfortunately, as part of the job
> had to go out to 'scene of crime' and look at the bodies in situ. *That*
> bit isn't for me. I'm a squint/labrat. A body on a slab wouldn't bother
> me at all.

Hehe. Well, I have a hankering to go back to Lowell, Mass. for
more Cambodian food. I will still try to get someone to show me
what that sauce is being meted out from. Still, yes, you have
advanced.

--
Jean B.