What is the brown sauce that is always found in a plastic bottle on the table in Vietnamese restaurants?!
What is the brown sauce that is always found in a plastic bottle on the table in Vietnamese restaurants?
The sauce is usually on the table next to the chilli sauce, in a recycled squeeze bottle that used to contain the chilli sauce, so it never has a label. It's fairly sweet and brown and delicious.
Answers: Hoisin Sauce - it's usually used in pho. It's also used to make that peanut dipping sauce that goes with spring rolls. Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hoisin_sauc... you mean soy sauce ? it is soy sauce Hoisin sauce. It has a semi-sweet taste. hoisin very sweet stuff I think its oyster sauce. Brown kinda thick like a brown ketchup right. I am pretty sure its oyster sauce. It is hoisin sauce (Chinese name). Black bean sauce (Vietnamese name) Hoison sauce! Yummy stuff!