Restaurant Style Asian Dipping Sauces
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I tend to have week or two week long cravings when it comes to certain types of foods. Normally it's Mexican and anything Asian. Over the last few weeks, I've been on an egg roll kick. It started off as super random, but with Chinese New Year coming up on February 19th, it felt fitting. I used to think that you had to go to an Asian restaurant to get authentic food, but I've since learned that it's very attainable at home. Tai Pei? provides authentic restaurant quality Asian appetizers that are incredible!
I've always wanted to make my own Asian food. I'm all about take out, but it's so nice to know you can make amazing Asian food at home too. And the best part is now that I have the bases to these amazing sauces, I have access to a lot of ingredients for Asian cooking.
This year, I have been trying to decorate throughout the year, without waiting just until Christmas rolls around to decorate. It's so fun celebrating the traditional holidays like Valentine's Day but I also love getting to experience other cultures through celebrating their holidays and traditions.
To celebrate the Chinese New Year, I created a little eggroll and dip party for us complete with paper lanterns and DIY paper fortune cookies as well as some amazing sauces! Having never taken the time to celebrate the holiday, it was really fun to decorate everything and then dig into the food! It's easy to think that restaurant quality food is too difficult to make at home, but with the right ingredients it can be really simple.
Chinese New Year is all about celebrating good fortune in the year to come. It's celebrated through traditions like red envelopes and feasting on traditional appetizers like egg rolls. These Tai Pei? egg rolls and spring rolls are packed with flavor and really do taste like they came from a restaurant, not from your freezer! There is a sauce that comes within the package, but I had to try making my own and I'm so glad I did! They have a variety of egg and spring rolls, we chose the mini spicy chicken egg rolls and mini chicken spring rolls.
Restaurant Style Asian Dipping Sauces
Ingredients
Apricot Sweet & Sour
- ½ cup ? Apricot preserves
- 1 TB ? Soy sauce
- 1 TB ? Rice vinegar
- 1 TB ? Fresh cilantro chopped
Soy Chile Sauce
- ¼ cup ? Soy sauce
- 2 TB ? Chile paste -or- chile garlic paste
- 1 TB ? Green onions chopped finely
- 2 teaspoon ? Honey
Instructions
Apricot Sweet & Sour
- Stir to combine preserves, soy sauce and rice vinegar. Stir in cilantro. Allow to sit for about 10 minutes to thicken slightly.
Soy Chile Sauce
- Mix together all ingredients
These appetizers are easily found at your local Walmart. You can also check your local papers for a coupon on 2/8! Visit Tai Pei? on Pinterest,Twitter and Facebook. There is a Chinese New Year app on the Tai Pei? Facebook page and The Red Envelope tab will include a coupon and will run until coupons run out!
These both sound amazing! I wish I could eat more Asian food. Also, your styling in these photos is lovely.
Thank you Stacia 🙂 I really had fun with it!
YUM!!! I love making chinese food with my Mom or my friend Heidi! It's sooo good!
Which section did you find the chile paste in?
In the Asian food aisle, you may not be able to find actual chile paste, mine looked like sweet and sour sauce but was labeled chile sauce!
Thanks!!! 🙂 I'll be sure to check that out!
*~ Victoria*
Oh my yum! We are having an appetizer party tomorrow night and are scrambling for some last minute ideas. This may be our best option!
I hope you were able to use these!! 🙂
Such beautiful photos! Makes me hungry just looking at them :). I love making my own stir-fry and such. I have also noticed that there are a couple good frozen versions when you are dying for some asap. Thank you for awesome sauces!
Stir fry is so good! And so easy to make at home. When we had these egg rolls I also made homemade chow mein which was so easy!
Your pictures are wonderful. These are three wonderful sauces.
Thank you Nicky! 🙂 They're so easy to make!
That sounds really good!
Those dipping sauces sound so delicious, I may end up on an egg roll kick of my own! Especially if it's as easy to make at home as the Tai Pei ones are. I think I'm in trouble! #client
So easy to make! 🙂
Funny I should read this, I have some Asian inspired pot stickers in the oven as I type this! These sauces look incredible. Wish I had read this when I was at the grocery story--next time.
That's amazing! I'm not a huge pot sticker fan but Steven is so you should definitely share that recipe 🙂
I've been on such an Asian kick lately, so your timing is perfect! Like I asked Dan for Chinese for dinner on Friday, and hibachi for lunch on Sunday... Yesterday I stocked up on different frozen Asian foods (alas, the first one I tried wasn't good). And I'm getting friends together for Indian. So. Yeah. Lots of cravings that won't go away.
I'll definitely have to try Tai Pei brand frozen food! And then make them fancy with your sauce recipes!
I LOVE that. That's exactly what I do with my cravings, I'm basically like as long as I'm not eating the exact same meal it's totally okay to have Asian three days in a row 😉
Now I'm craving those Asian dipping sauces! Your pictures are simply beautiful! Yum!!
Thank you Alli! My Asian kick went away but I still looove having these egg rolls on hand for a quick snack!
These look so incredible, and I loved your corresponding post on My Crafty Spot! You're so talented, girl!! I am going to have to try these ASAP!
Thank you!! I always like when there are multiple parts to a post 🙂
Oh my! These look so yummy and your photos are gorgeous! I am literally drooling!
Drooling is totally allowed! Thanks Erin- I had so much fun with it!
Yumm!!! These look really good 🙂 Thank you for sharing!
Thank you! 🙂
I *so* needed these recipes last night with our lettuce wraps! Thanks so much for the recipes, Madison!
~ Ashley
You'll just have to make it again 😉
After reading this, I definitely want Chinese for lunch! Your pictures are gorgeous!
Thanks Martha Kate! I say go for the Chinese 🙂
Chinese sounds good for lunch, now, lol. Also, I think we've talked about this before, but I love cooking asian at home, so I'll definitely be coming back to this post! 🙂
We made homemade chow mein to go with it, it was so good!
These all sound so good!
Oh my dear goodness; your photos are gorgeous. And the food looks divine!! Thank you so much for sharing!
Thanks Liz! It was such a tasty event 😉
I just love how you styled these pictures, Madison! It makes me want to make homemade chinese food right now! And where did you get those spoons? We have been looking for some!
Thank you! I had SO much fun. The most fun styling a shoot I've ever had 🙂 And they're from Pier 1! Aren't they perfect?!