Many foreigners who choose to taste Hainanese cuisine will always be curious, whether in a large hotel or a small restaurant, always see the saucers neatly arranged on a separate table, next to a variety of sauces for guests to choose, many foreign friends will be very curious about this.
Hainan people's attention to and love for dipping sauce is no less than the pursuit of food, and dipping sauces with different tastes can be made depending on the ingredients. Traditional Hainanese combine the dipping sauce of various things into "vinegar", or "dish", which has chicken "vinegar" when eating chicken, duck "vinegar" when eating duck, and "vinegar" when eating seafood. In addition, there is a stronger flavor called "sauce".
1. Peppercorns
Hainan restaurants like to use sour oranges as a condiment, generally will be picked fresh cetegrain washed, divided into two or three into three cut two or three cloves, or only give it a small opening, the "wild pepper" or "rice pepper" or "bell pepper" washed and chopped, and then the pepper crushed with orange cloves mixed, add an appropriate amount of salt and crushed garlic, you can mix into a sauce, used to "dish" Wenchang chicken can be delicious.
Or mix well and put it into the bottle, after a period of natural fermentation, the original green orange petals become yellow, which is the "pepper orange" that Hainan people often eat.
2. Shrimp paste
As a common condiment on the table of the people of Hainan, Hainan shrimp paste contains a strong sense of nostalgia and inseparable taste, and has become synonymous with a memory. For people who grew up in Hainan, the salty taste of shrimp paste is such a presence.
Shrimp paste is a very distinctive seasoning food in Hainan, which is processed with small sea shrimp (sand shrimp). The sauce is ruddy and fragrant, and it is a superior condiment. It can be dipped in sauce and stir-fried. Stir-fried sweet potato (sweet potato) leaves, taro seedlings, add a little sand shrimp sauce, the aroma is strong, stimulate the appetite, in hainan all over the large and small restaurants can eat such specialties.
Shrimp sauce preservation should be sealed, not easy to lose the taste in order to preserve the original sauce flavor. There are many ways to eat shrimp paste, the most commonly eaten in Hainan cuisine is shrimp sauce sweet potato leaves and shrimp sauce steamed pork belly these two kinds.
3. Yellow lantern chili sauce
Eating at a Hainan restaurant, there is basically a small bottle of yellow chili sauce on every table, which is the famous yellow lantern chili sauce.
Yellow pepper, produced in southern Hainan, is lantern-shaped, bright yellow in color and beautiful in appearance, also known as bell pepper. After testing, the spiciness of yellow pepper reaches 150,000 spiciness units, also known as chili king.
Yellow lantern chili sauce belongs to Hainan specialties, do not know when to start "fire", now many friends to Hainan, will bring some yellow lantern chili sauce back.
4. Assorted sauce
The so-called assorted sauce, also known as Qiong sauce, and some hainan areas call it miscellaneous sauce, is a must-have food for every household in Hainan Province.
Its blending ingredients are mainly peanut flour, sesame paste, sweet potatoes, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, pepper, allspice, sesame oil, wine and other refined, often used in white cut chicken, side stove or jai vegetables dipped to eat, can be described as fragrant, endless aftertaste.
5. Marinade sauce
Hainan people are famous for their love of eating powder, and flour delicacies such as Hainan pickled powder and Lingshui sour powder are very common.
Hainan flour is added with peanuts, coriander, sauerkraut and other condiments, followed by a spoonful of marinade, which is flavorful and fragrant, and the aftertaste is endless.
The common feature of Lingshui sour powder is sour, and another taste is sweet, which is a red viscous paste made of garlic paste, tomato sauce and other spices.
The core part of these two bowls of flour is the marinade sauce used, because most of them are secrets, and each family's marinade method will have its own part that is not known to outsiders, so the taste of each Hainan noodle shop is different.
6. Sweet and sour vinegar
There is a saying in Hainan that "a bowl of sweet and sour vinegar, open your mouth and fat two pounds", sweet and sour vinegar is made by mixing white vinegar, sugar, sweet and spicy sauce, etc.
In the dad tea shop, you can see a bowl or even several bowls, used to dip radish cakes, flapjacks, dumplings and other fried foods, the taste is sweet and sour, delicious and appetizing, will make you unconsciously dip more and eat more, so the rumored "drink a bowl of fat two pounds" is how it came.