# Need green chinese sauce **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 22, 2007, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-green-chinese-sauce/388948 "2007-01-22T13:55:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-green-chinese-sauce/388948/1 "2007-01-22T13:55:35Z")
When I entertain, I often do chicken wings and 5-6 different sauces for people to dip (my version of a fondue party, if you must). Problem is that when I go for a chinese/asian theme, All sauces are pretty yellow/red/brown/black and there is no good color contrast on the table. I would like a green sauce to break the monotone. Green Curry is not well liked among my regular crowd. Any ideas anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-green-chinese-sauce/388948/2 "2007-01-22T16:26:28Z")
I’m not sure such a thing exists 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-green-chinese-sauce/388948/3 "2007-01-22T16:27:36Z")
Couldn’t you use food coloring? I’m not even kidding. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-green-chinese-sauce/388948/4 "2007-01-22T16:30:11Z")
You could use a yellowish duck sauce, add blue food coloring and some diced green onion and make your own “Green Dragon Sauce.” ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-green-chinese-sauce/388948/5 "2007-01-22T16:31:34Z")
Damn, beaten to the punch. ---
**Author:** ![arseNal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@arseNal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arseNal)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-green-chinese-sauce/388948/6 "2007-01-22T18:09:21Z")
The only thing I can think of (short of using the food coloring suggestion) is a ginger-scallion dipping sauce. It’s not completely green tho, and you don’t usually eat it in the kind of amounts I think of when I think of fondue. But, it does go with chicken. In fact, that’s the only application I’m aware of. The only recipes I can find on the web seem rather complicated. The way I know it, it’s just a bunch of minced ginger and scallion in some oil, but then again I’m not much of a cook. Ok, sorry, I guess that’s not really very helpful at all. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-green-chinese-sauce/388948/7 "2007-01-22T18:14:59Z")
Make a sweet and sour with lime juice instaed of vinegar and food coloring. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-green-chinese-sauce/388948/8 "2007-01-22T18:56:03Z")
Wasabi. Just mix it with a little mayonnaise to get a Japanesey style sauce. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-green-chinese-sauce/388948/9 "2007-01-22T19:38:50Z")
mayosabi sounds like a reasonable idea. It doesn’t have to be day-glo parrot green. Just anything to break the yellow to black pallette. (and one step above just garnishing yellow sauces with scallions which helps a bit, btw) heck, I guess even white sauces would help. The ginger scallion I found sounds easy and tasty, not too greenish, though since it uses soy sauce which would darken it. Worth a shot, though. and NO FOOD COLORING!!! ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-green-chinese-sauce/388948/10 "2007-01-22T22:19:22Z")
I’m thinking you could run with that Indian mint sauce that they always serve with those crispy sesame tortilla thingees in Indian restaurants. It’s real green and tastes pretty good too. [Indian Mint Sauce](http://www.route79.com/food/mint-sauce.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-green-chinese-sauce/388948/11 "2007-01-23T00:34:00Z")
hey, that looks awesome (specially when you consider I have some fresh mint just sitting there). Will see if I can try it tomorrow and report the results. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-green-chinese-sauce/388948/12 "2007-01-23T03:28:58Z")
If a digression is allowed: What do you have against food coloring? A sweet and sour sauce I liked used catsup for the red; I substituted red dye #2 ans it looks much nicer. You sound as rabid as I become over Miracle Whip. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-green-chinese-sauce/388948/13 "2007-01-23T03:39:28Z")
Howzabout a tomatillo-cilantro-salsa verde Mexican thing? Green, authentic, and no food coloring. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-green-chinese-sauce/388948/14 "2007-01-23T03:43:13Z")
Also, just thinking off the top of my head, even if they don’t like green curry, I’m sure you can improvise a nice sauce from: lime, green chiles, lemongrass, garlic, galangal (or ginger), and fish sauce. Perhaps some kaffir lime leaves and cilantro as well. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-green-chinese-sauce/388948/15 "2007-01-23T03:49:30Z")
Darn! Just missed the edit deadline. What I meant to add: edit: Got yet another idea. You can always use the green jalapeno Tabasco sauce and cut it with margarine or butter (think Buffalo wings) for a great wing sauce. Add garlic and /or any green herb that you think would make sense for additional greenness. I bet this would work really well. If you want to be extra adventurous, try jalapeno Tabasco, lime, cilantro, butter. I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-green-chinese-sauce/388948/16 "2007-01-23T14:59:38Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] If a digression is allowed: What do you have against food coloring? A sweet and sour sauce I liked used catsup for the red; I substituted red dye #2 ans it looks much nicer. You sound as rabid as I become over Miracle Whip. 🙂 [/QUOTE] What’s wrong with Miracle Whip? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-green-chinese-sauce/388948/17 "2007-01-23T15:02:10Z")
[QUOTE=pulykamell] Howzabout a tomatillo-cilantro-salsa verde Mexican thing? Green, authentic, and no food coloring. [/QUOTE] That’s very asian, _cuate_! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-green-chinese-sauce/388948/18 "2007-01-23T15:06:19Z")
[QUOTE=Sapo] What’s wrong with Miracle Whip? 🙂 [/QUOTE] It tastes icky. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-green-chinese-sauce/388948/19 "2007-01-23T17:04:01Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] It tastes icky. 🙂 [/QUOTE] That’s the problem, you are using it for eating. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-green-chinese-sauce/388948/20 "2007-01-23T17:11:53Z")
[QUOTE=Sapo] That’s the problem, you are using it for eating. [/QUOTE] I _wondered_ why my sister kept it in the bathroom… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-green-chinese-sauce/388948.md?page=2)