House BBQ Sauce

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    4

    cups
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Chinese-American Barbecue: Big-Flavor Asian BBQ from the Smoke Queen

By Winnie Yee

Published 2026

  • About

I developed this BBQ sauce to represent the entirety of my concept at Smoke Queen Barbecue. I wanted something that tasted familiar to the typical American palette but with a hint of my Asian heritage. It’s not the typical sweet sauce that you’d find in Kansas City ribs, nor the acidic-forward Carolina sauce. And I hope you find that I achieved just that by mixing ingredients traditionally found in American BBQ sauces with some authentic Chinese ingredients. This is a ketchup-based recipe,