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
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Date: 2008-11-22 02:06 am (UTC)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