Eating in China
Plum sauce ingredient on a plain plate.

Plum sauce

酸梅酱Suānméi jiàng

Sweet-tart sauce made with sour plums and used for dipping roast meat.

Type
Sauces and seasonings

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Sweet-tart sauce made with sour plums and used for dipping roast meat.

In the kitchen

Roast-goose accompaniment.

Commercial plum sauces differ in sweetness and acidity.

Ask about this ingredient

这道菜里有酸梅酱吗?

Does this dish contain Plum sauce?

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