Karma Cosmic Dumpling Hot Sauce
This is one that I found poking around on Roger's (Burn Your Tongue) Facebook page, back when I could do that [long story short, I don't have a Facebook account, never had, never will, so I can't login to view it these days] and came across this. As Asian-style sauces are ones I never seem to have enough of, this had my immediate interest and one of my subsequent "haul" trips up there, I located it and brought it back with me.
Flavor-wise, this is very reminiscent of Asian-style sweet-hot sauces in general. The presences of soy, sesame, a touch of ginger and garlic are all there, but this particular variation is a lot more on the astringent side. Given that you would want to lean more heavily on the tang for fried stuff, such as wontons or gyoza, this makes a good degree of sense, but I find it also limits where I can use it, as you need to have something strongly flavored to offset that tang or it becomes a bit distracting.
Generally I'm not usually interested in Jalapeno sauces (I can't remember what the one prior to this or when it happened was - perhaps someday I will put together that pepper cross-reference), but this one was definitely worth stepping out for its very unique take on things. Given that pepper is the actual heat source, there is very little of it to be had here, again, very typical for most Asian-style sweet-hot sauces.
Bottom line: Short and sweet, but if you like your Asian-style sweet-hot sauces to be leaning more to the tangier side of things or if you want something more specifically to complement fried foods, this is well worth a look.
Breakdown:
Heat level: 0
Flavor: 5
Flexibility: 3
Enjoyment to dollar factor: 5
Overall: 3
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