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I just had a chicken sandwich with sweet chili sauce and I have to talk about it.

For those of you outside the US, you may not know it, but sweet chili sauce is not very common here.

I fell in love with it while traveling and found some the other day.

It is SO GOOD!! I don't understand why it isn't more popular here!!

Any other sweet chili sauce lovers? Any good recipe hints??

Where'd your post go, Joe?

Before someone else says it..

Ok, I have NO PROOF that NO ONE in the US uses sweet chili sauce. In fact, maybe it is used in some places. I haven't been to every corner of the US so I can't say. I only know it isn't common in at least NY and the mid-west. So please excuse my blanket statement that "sweet chili sauce is not common in the US."

My mom makes some killer sweet chili sauce! I love it, too.

ooh!! what are the ingredients?

It's secret...mom's recipe

Actually, I have no idea..hehe. My parents used to grow the chili peppers in the backyard, and would pick them off when they were fresh. And then she'd use them to make the sweet chili sauce or for cooking. That's all I know!

I've only had sweet chili sauce in Australia. It almost certainly would be popular in the US as well.

Are you kidding? I never heard of it until I LEFT the States. The condiment's quite popular over in Australia and New Zealand. Just wish I could buy the same stuff here!

Over there, I think I recall Heinz made it in nice squeezable bottles.

Marisa- that sounds so cool! Picking peppers out of your own garden. Love that! I need a garden...

I used to hypothesize about why it wasn't big in the US... maybe because a lot of the country (i.e., not the coasts) aren't into spicy food, for the most part? I don't know. But I had a breaded chicken sandwich with pepperjack and sweet chili sauce last night and it was *awesome*. I first started to love it when I had the Oporto Bondi burgers in Oz. Those were to die for.

I didn't have the sauce until I was in Australia, either. It isn't that hard to find here in the NYC area, especially in Asian markets.

Yum!

I guess since I grew up with it, I take it for granted I didn't realize it was so rare in the states.

Next time I talk to my mom...probably a while..maybe I'll try to get the recipe for ya!

you can buy it in any chinese or oriental shop anywhere in the world.

I use to be addicted to it (especially to Thai 'Fat Boy' brand) untill I started to have problems with my belly. I think it was even not the chilli itself - I can eat them in any other form - but the thickener in it made from the gum tree.

Yes Jan, but not every place in the world has Chinese or oriental shops.

Pity.

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Originally posted by Tickles:
Yes Jan, but not every place in the world has Chinese or oriental shops.

what about walking into chinese take away and ordering a commercial size bottle of souce (will be cheaper then in a retail shop) ?

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Pity.

Joe: What's with the sarcasm? Why?

All I'm saying, Jan, is that not everywhere has it, and not every Chinese take-out has it. Where I'm from originally no one's even heard of sweet chili sauce. It's not available everywhere. That's all I'm trying to say.

I am always sarcastic.

I also live around the largest Asian community outside of Asia. Asian food every day in a different restaurant for the rest of my life is poosible. Anyway, enough gloating.

Hopefully, for all you sweet chili sauce lovers out there, you will soon get 99 Ranch markets on the East coast.

Yes, the east coast needs sweet chilli sauce. Man, if I had that when growing up!

But instead I had duck sauce. The west coast definitely needs some of this:
Duck Sauce - yum

If you ignore the fact that it is horribly bad for you, it kicks ass when dipping chicken fingers (another mainly east coast chinese food delicacy) in it.

Wait a minute-- Duck sauce isn't made from ducks?!

Why is it called duck sauce then?

Because of low doorways.

Dan's Sweet Chilli emporium can export bottles of Sweet Chilli sauce to the East coast for $80 a time

Dan - honest guv! :P

Your incredibly saucy (heh) wit has given me an idea for a BnA food swap. Would any one be interested in sending food (that is legally allowed to be shipped -- no In and Out Burgers or burritos from Baja Fresh) to a buddy across the sea/continent?

I love extra curricular activities.