Hot-and-Sweet Dipping Sauce

Whenever you stop at a Thai street stall to buy gai yang (grilled chicken), you will be handed with your chicken a small bag of sticky rice and an even smaller plastic bag of dipping sauce, bright reddish orange with chile peppers and sticky with sugar. The sauce is very easy to make at home and adds a wonderful final touch to grilled chicken, pork, or lamb. Serve in small individual condiment bowls so guests can dip their meat and their sticky rice in it as they eat.