Hoisin sauce is a Chinese dipping sauce. The word hoisin is a Romanization of the Chinese word for seafood "海鮮" as pronounced in Cantonese.
Famous quotes containing the word sauce:
“She leet no morsel from hir lippes falle,
Ne wette hir fyngres in hir sauce depe.
Wel koude she carie a morsel and wel kepe
That no drope ne fille upon hire brest.
In curteisie was set ful muchel hir lest.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)