# At a Chinese restaurant: Mustard and ?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 24, 2015, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-a-chinese-restaurant-mustard-and/720689 "2015-05-24T01:40:32Z")\
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Duck sauce, to me, is essentially hoisin thinned with something tangy. The stuff for your egg roll is sweet & sour. And I think of it as apricot.

The red sauce with the pork hunks is also sweet & sour, but it seems like it popped up with the Chinese buffets. The previous version, and the type at Mom & Pop Americanized Chinese restaurants, was the same as the egg roll stuff + pineapple and green pepper.

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