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?'>

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? 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.

You get a gold star!

--
Jean B.

All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently
opposed. Third, it is accepted as being
self-evident. --Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

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? 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.
>
> You get a gold star!


If the restaurant was Vietnamese and the sauce was brown and sweet, it
was probably hoisin sauce. They usually serve soy sauce, sriracha and
hoisin sauce at the table.


Becca

"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.

Becca 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? 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.
> >
> > You get a gold star!
>
> If the restaurant was Vietnamese and the sauce was brown and sweet, it
> was probably hoisin sauce. They usually serve soy sauce, sriracha and
> hoisin sauce at the table.
>
> Becca

Except that it wasn't LOL. Otherwise would never have questioned it.

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.