Sauces and Pastes

Hong Kong cookery involves a number of thick, tasty sauces and pastes. They are essential to the authentic taste of the food, and it is well worth the effort to obtain them. Most are now easy to find in bottles or tins in Chinese shops and some supermarkets. Tinned sauces, once opened, should be transferred to screw-top glass jars and kept in the refrigerator where they will last indefinitely.