Title: Sha Cha Jiang - Chinese Royal Bbq Sauce
Categories: Chinese Sauce Bbq
Yield: 1 Servings

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Sha Cha Jiang and Satay are one and the same thing. "Satay" is the Southern Min (Xiamen, Chaozhou and Taiwan dialect all belong to the Southern Min group of Chinese dialects) pronunciation of Mandarin "Sha Cha", Jiang just means sauce. Cha means tea in Mandarin; the English word TEA is in fact an anglicization of the Southern Min word TE - it sounds perfect if you say it in Spanish. Many Chinese people have no idea of how to romanize systematically: Sha Zha Chiang is a hodgepodge spelling which should be ignored.

Satay sauce is often used in Southeast Chinese cooking and in Southeast Asia, where there are many immigrants from SE China. One tasty way to use it is as a dip for Huoguo ("firepot"), where guests sit around a sort of samovar and dip vegetables, meat and fish into the boiling water to cook. After removing the cooked food, it is often dipped into a bowl containing satay sauce and perhaps an egg. At the end of the meal, everybody gets to share the delicious broth.. Yummy!

Robert Matthews From: NOmaxuejinSPAM@cei.net

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