Food help!

[wesleysgirl]

When we used to get scallion pancakes and pan fried dumplings from the (American/)Chinese restaurants near our house, they would come with a little cup of dipping sauce. I think the sauce was soy-sauce based, but it wasn't as salty as soy sauce. It had a really nice tang to it, and sometimes little bits of something, maybe scallion, floating in it. There might have been ginger in it, as well. Can anyone tell me if this dipping sauce has an actual name?

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[eac.livejournal.com]

I don't know what it's called, but I think it's soy mixed with vinegar - perhaps like this stuff? http://www.ehow.com/how_2019377_pot-sticker-sauce.html

[raveninthewind.livejournal.com]

It could be soy sauce mixed with ponzu, a Japanese citrus. Kikkoman Ponzu is a commercial form of it mixed with soy sauce.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzu

But the sauce that typically comes with dumplings in a Chinese restaurant is probably mixed in house: soy sauce, watered down a bit, plus some rice vinegar and Chinese hot chili oil, and probably some grated fresh ginger if you can taste ginger.
http://chinesefood.about.com/od/saucesdipping/r/dumplingsauce.htm

Also see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiaozi

[fadedwings]

GINGER DIPPING SAUCE:

* 1/4 cup thin soy sauce
* 1/4 cup Chinese chinkiang vinegar
* 1/4 cup sliced scallions
* 1 teaspoon minced ginger
* 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
* 1 teaspoon sugar

Combine all ingredients.

There is a different one here...and here...and here.

I tend to just do some soy sauce with crushed garlic and some rice wine vinegar or maybe a bit of sesame oil if I have it on hand...when I have fresh ginger on hand sometimes I do that with soysauce...depends on what I have on hand ;)

[essene.livejournal.com]

ponzu ponzu ponzu

Trader Joe's also sells a Gyoza dipping sauce that has stuff in it, but I just like plain old ponzu

[vaginasaurus.livejournal.com]

I heartily support this suggestion of Trader Joe's! Their sauce is pretty delicious. :D

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

I really like the house sauce from Mary Chung's... though I don't know what's in it.

MMMMM... maybe I could get some pot stickers today, from there even.

[byrne.livejournal.com]

onion cakes here come with a sauce which seems to be a mix of soy, chillies, and vinegar. VERY spicy and hot -- absolutely fantastic.

[helene94.livejournal.com]

The sauce I use for dumplings (spring rolls, too, when I make them) is a mixture of regular Kikkoman soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, and a little slivered ginger--it's chemically indistinguishable from the restaurant version, except a bit gingerier, because I really like fresh ginger. Hope this helps