XO sauce

XO sauce
Rice topped with XO sauce
TypeCondiment
Place of originHong Kong
Created byUnknown
Main ingredientsdried scallop, chilli peppers, Jinhua ham, dried shrimp, garlic, vegetable oil
  •   Media: XO sauce
XO sauce
Traditional ChineseXO醬
Simplified ChineseXO酱
Cantonese YaleXO jeung
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinXO jiàng
BopomofoXO ㄐㄧㄤˋ
Wade–GilesXO chiang4
IPAXO [tɕjâŋ]
Wu
RomanizationXO 5cian
Hakka
Pha̍k-fa-sṳXO chiong
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationXO jeung
JyutpingXO zoeng3
IPAXO [tsœŋ˧]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJXO chiùⁿ
Teochew Peng'imXO ziên3 / XO zion3
Eastern Min
Fuzhou BUCXO cuóng
Northern Min
Jian'ou RomanizedXO cio̿ng

XO sauce is a spicy seafood sauce from Hong Kong with an umami flavour. It is commonly used in southern Chinese regions such as Guangdong.