Hoisin Jeong in Cantonese, or haixian jiang in Mandarin, means seafood sauce. Hoi or hai means sea and sin or xian is fresh. The two Chinese characters combined, hoisin or…
Traditionally, we make black bean paste from scratch by soaking the dried, preserved black soy bean (dausi) and mashing it with garlic. Don’t be turned off by it’s strong…