I'm visiting Korea right now for the first time. I went to a pork korean bbq place in Gyongju and I had this sauce. It was soooo good! I tried asking the waiter, but we had some language barrier challenges. Anybody know its name? It tasted sweet and tangy ish, like some dipping fish sauce, but a little bit more extra imo. I need to have the recipe back home 🤤.
by duc5r00tzz
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Sorry, I don’t know the Korean name for it. I have a recipe for it saved, and the website calls it Korean sweet tangy dipping sauce. It’s used for mandu (dumplings) and pajjeon. It’s a soy sauce base with sugar and vinegar that might also include red pepper flakes, garlic, green onions, and sesame seeds.
Most likely 양념 (Yangnyeom) sauce. Dipping/ all purpose seasoning sauce. Soy sauce, vinegar and aromatics (garlic onion green onion chiles for spice) and of course sesame oil
It looks like soy dipping sauce. Add all the optional ingredients in this recipe to get a good proximate for what’s on the table.
Edit – link fix
https://mykoreankitchen.com/korean-sweet-tangy-soy-dipping-sauce/
Use Google translate. I was able to communicate everything by using English—>Korean, showed them the screen, and everyone (save old folks) would whip out their phones and do the same.
Try this:
-minced garlic
-diced pepper of your choice, this might be cheongyang, but you can use whatever you like
-soy sauce
-sweetner like maesil
-fish or anchovy sauce
They may have added some rice vinegar as well. Test a combination of these ingredients and see if you can get something similar.
Don’t ask me about Korean food. I just know that they’re good, so I eat it