hoisin sauce

hoisin sauce [hoi-sin, hoi-sin] Word Origin noun Chinese Cookery.

1. a thick, sweet, spicy condiment containing soybeans, sugar, garlic, and chili peppers, used in cooking or as an accompaniment to meat, fish, or poultry, especially Peking duck.

Origin of hoisin sauce 1960–65; dialectal Chinese (Guangdong) hóisīn, equivalent to Chinese hǎixiān seafood