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When we mix cold dishes, we need not only some condiments such as MSG and chicken essence, but also oyster sauce. The smell of oyster sauce is particularly fragrant. Its appearance is a brown and thick substance. Whether we are cooking or mixing vegetables, we can add some to improve the taste of the dishes. Especially when eating hot pot, the dipping sauce cannot be lacking. So what is the role and use of oyster sauce?

How to use oyster sauce

In fact, oyster sauce is extremely convenient and simple to use. Oyster sauce has a wide range of seasonings and can be used to season all salty foods.

For example, mixing noodles, mixing vegetables, cooking meat, stewing fish, making oyster sauce chicken wing soup, etc. There are many famous dishes seasoned with oyster sauce, such as "beef with oyster sauce", "duck feet with oyster sauce", "chicken wings with oyster sauce", "mushrooms with oyster sauce", "squid pigeon with oyster sauce", "tofu with oyster sauce", "braised tripe with oyster sauce", and "abalone slices with oyster sauce".

Another example is the Tan family dish "Abalone with Oyster Sauce" and the Guangxi specialty "Duck with Oyster Sauce and Pomelo Skin", each with its own characteristics. Oyster sauce is suitable for a variety of cooking techniques such as stir-frying, braising, and roasting.

In recent years, with the mutual infiltration of eating habits of people from all over the country and the improvement of living standards, not only people in Guangzhou like to eat oyster sauce, but people from other places have gradually liked to eat it.

With the emergence of a large number of Chinese restaurants overseas, oyster sauce began to be favored by foreign customers and became a best-seller. There are certain requirements for the use of oyster sauce in cooking. High-quality oyster sauce should be semi-liquid and have moderate consistency. There is no stratification or starch precipitation after long-term storage.

The quality of oyster sauce is characterized by being in a thin paste form, free of residue or impurities, reddish brown to brown in color, bright and shiny, with a unique fragrance and ester aroma, a delicious, mellow and slightly sweet taste, without any burnt, bitter, astringent or corrupt or fermented smell, and an oily and smooth feeling in the mouth.

Depending on the seasoning, oyster sauce can be divided into light oyster sauce and salty oyster sauce. Famous products include Lee Kum Kee Oyster Sauce, Hai Tian Oyster Sauce, Wei Huang Fresh Oyster Sauce, Sham Tseng Oyster Sauce, Shajing Oyster Sauce, etc.