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black-bean sauce en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of black bean sauce.
   alt of black bean sauce
   • Aroma started out serving Cantonese-style crowdpleasers – sticky, black-bean sauces, piles of chow mein and battered pork in sunset-orange sweet-and-sour – but these days it calls itself pan-Asian, shape-shifting in line with the modern British palate. 2022 October 14, Grace Dent, “Aroma Buffet, London W12: ‘Delivering joy though dark times’ – restaurant review”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Oct 2022:
   • If you’re not in a spicy mood, this restaurant also does a great job with dim sum small plates like translucent “crystal shrimp dumplings” (har gow, a Cantonese dim sum favorite), pan-seared turnip cakes with sweet cured sausage and dried shrimp, or miniature steamed spare ribs in black-bean sauce. 2022 October 8–14, Robin Goldstein, “Chinese flavors in the Valley: What to order and where to order it if you want the real thing”, in The Pioneer Valley’s Binge Worthy (Daily Hampshire Gazette), Northampton, Mass., page C2, column 2:
   • Try spicy dumplings, fried sea bass with black-bean sauce or the seafood congee. 2016 February 17, Elizabeth Chang, “Where to find Washington’s new Chinatown, Little Ethiopia, etc.”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2016:

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