CURRY SAUCE
Curry is a variety of dishes originating in the Indian subcontinent that use a complex combination of spices or herbs, usually including ground turmeric, cumin, coriander, ginger, and fresh or dried chillies. In southern India, where the word originated, curry leaves, from the curry tree, are also an integral ingredient. Curry is generally prepared in a sauce.
PAD THAI SAUCE
Pad Thai is one of the world’s most beloved noodle dishes. Along with Thai Green Curry and Red Curry, this is the dish by which every Thai restaurant is measured.
Pad Thai is a Thai noodle stir fry with a sweet-savoury-sour sauce scattered with crushed peanuts. It’s made with thin, flat rice noodles, and almost always has bean sprouts, garlic chives, scrambled egg, firm tofu and a protein – the most popular being chicken or prawns/shrimp.
Pad Thai Sauce is made with fish sauce, oyster sauce, brown sugar and tamarind.
Tamarind is the ingredient that is the heart and soul of Pad Thai sauce, giving the sauce the sour flavour that Pad Thai is known for.
TERIYAKI SAUCE
Teriyaki is a Japanese term referring to a method of cooking beef or chicken, that has been marinated (in a mixture of soy sauce, mirin, sugar, garlic, ginger and seasonings) prior to being grilled, broiled or roasted. It's interesting to note that in Japan, there is no official teriyaki sauce. Teriyaki sauce was invented by early Japanese settlers to Hawaii. They created a marinade/basting sauce out of local, readily-available products, like pineapple juice and garlic (neither of which are Japanese), mixed with soy sauce and thickened with corn starch. Teriyaki sauce tends to be bolder in flavour, sweeter and thicker than yakitori sauce.
YAKITORI SAUCE
Yakitori is a Japanese type of skewered chicken. Its preparation involves skewering the meat with kushi, a type of skewer typically made of steel, bamboo, or similar materials. Afterwards, they are grilled over a charcoal fire. During or after cooking, the meat is typically seasoned. Yakitori seasonings are primarily divided into two types: salty or salty-sweet. The salty type usually uses plain salt as its main seasoning. For the salty-sweet variety, tare, a special sauce consisting of mirin, sake, soy sauce, and sugar is used. Other common spices include powdered cayenne pepper, shichimi, Japanese pepper, black pepper, and wasabi, according to one's tastes.
SUKIYAKI SAUCE
Sukiyaki is a Japanese dish that is prepared and served in a Japanese hot pot. It consists of meat (usually thinly sliced beef) which is slowly cooked or simmered at the table, alongside vegetables and other ingredients, in a shallow iron pot in the sukiyaki sauce, a mixture of soy sauce, sugar, and mirin. The ingredients are usually dipped in a small bowl of raw, beaten eggs after being cooked in the pot, and then eaten.
BLACK BEAN SAUCE
Black bean sauce is an important and popular ingredient in Chinese cuisine, particularly Cantonese and Sichuan cooking. It’s as common as an everyday condiment as ketchup is here.
The central ingredient are fermented black soybeans, called douchi in Chinese. They are created through a process of boiling the beans, then inoculating them with a special mold spore as they dry in the sun. This same mold variety is used in miso and soy sauce which are also both fermented products.
SEASONING SAUCE
'Seasoning sauce' is a rather broad and vague term and really could cover any number and variety of condiments. Most often it is associated with a dark, hydrolysed vegetable protein-based sauce. It is very similar to East Asian soy sauce without actually containing soy and has come to be used frequently in Asian cooking.
ALL-PURPOSE SAUCE
All-purpose sauce is the commercial version of the traditional salsa, a modern convenience for busy Filipinos. Whether spicy or mild, the sauce is addictively tangy and garlicky and perfect not only for roast pork (lechon asado) but also its fried version (lechon kawali) or indeed any fried food that needs a tangy shot of flavor. And with bread crumbs subbing for the thickening power of liver, all-purpose is vegetarian-friendly.