(American)Chinese food condiments

This has been driving me insane. I eat at a few cheap american chinese food places, and have fallen in love with a sauce that seems pretty universal between them - it's a thick red deal, looks pretty much exactly the same as ketchup and has roughly the same thickness and such. It's generally served with hot mustard, and is used on BBQ pork and fried shrimp.

Anyone know what the hell this is?

Few things that I've had suggested that I've ruled out: duck sauce, plum sauce, sriracha, peanut sauce.

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Sweet & Sour sauce? Every Chinese restaurant has that.

Sweet & Sour sauce? Every Chinese restaurant has that.

Dude, just ask at the restaurant

>>5

Winner!

could be like heinz chili sauce (basis of cocktail sauce) or what we in DC call mambo sauce (a kind of ketchup/sweet-n-sour hybrid)

could be like heinz chili sauce (basis of cocktail sauce) or what we in DC call mambo sauce (a kind of ketchup/sweet-n-sour hybrid)

General Tso's sauce

and is used on BBQ pork
Did you consider BBQ sauce?

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it was cocktail sauce

maybe its Char siu sauce ? Its that red stuff they use to make chinese BBQ pork.