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JugaarLife

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Anyone managed to perfect this? I've tried several times and the results have been rubbish, to be perfectly honest! Always ends up tasting like a poor version of the sauce in the polystyrene cup from the Chinese poured over everything, but from the Chinese you avoid rather than a good one (since I actually like that sauce!)

 

Any delicious sweet and sour tips, send 'em this way! And in exchange I'll try and think of something I actually cook well...

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I just buy a small bottle of sweet chilli sauce, and add tomato sauce in some guise. I agree it never quite tastes the same, but corn starch is essential.

I think shallots are better than standard onions, and Tilda jasmine rice not basmati.

 

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6 hours ago, LadyG said:

I just buy a small bottle of sweet chilli sauce, and add tomato sauce in some guise. I agree it never quite tastes the same, but corn starch is essential.

I think shallots are better than standard onions, and Tilda jasmine rice not basmati.

 

Ooh, interesting! Never tried that, I'm going to give it a go! I love shallots. Never occured to me to try them with this. I shall! 

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21 hours ago, JugaarLife said:

but from the Chinese you avoid rather than a good one (since I actually like that sauce!)

 

Me too! 

 

Actually I always imagined it was monosodium glutamate mixed with a bit of sugar and water. 

 

Back in the day when I was boracic I took a job driving a delivery van. I used to deliver MSG by the tonne in 50kg sacks to dodgy-looking Chinese restaurants. 

 

 

 

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