What is "hoisin"

Usage examples of "hoisin".

I put a slice of duck on a pancake, brushed on the hoisin sauce with the scallion brush, put the scallion on top of the duck, folded the pancake over and took a bite.

The sweetened varieties have proved popular with American eaters, and Hoisin sauce is always served with Peking Duck in this country.

Unless she can smother it in hoisin sauce from Number One Noodle Son, she is just not interested.

Peking duckslivers of duck served with shreds of crisp pancake and a drizzle of hoisin sauce, all presented on porcelain Chinese soup spoons.

I stopped daydreaming and rejoined Chapman and Wallace in conversation, as the waiter hacked at the carcass of the duck with amazing speed and accuracy, wrapping and twisting the slivers of fowl in paper-thin pancakes stuffed with scallions and hoisin sauce.

Peking squirrel with hoisin sauce, chipmunks cubed in a dry wok, and chinchilla chow fun.