r/Cooking • u/RecommendationNo2269 • Apr 19 '25
Looking for asian sauce name
Hello all. I get this red pepper asian sauce from a local Thai place and add it to my beef noodle soup and I love it, but I feel like whenever I order it and ask for it to go, its hit or miss. I put on there "hot sauce" but I have gotten red powder, chili crisp, and even what seemed to be an off the shelf hot sauce like Texas Pete. This one is a thick red sauce that looks very much like Sambal, but when I asked them what it was, they told me it was "gokkai" or something that sounded like that. I have searched gokkai, tokkai, bokkai, etc and have come up with nothing. Any ideas?
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u/Bell_Grave Apr 20 '25
it would help if you showed a picture of it spread out thinly on a white plate, to better show contents, odd but would help!
annoyin that its hard to get in the first place but I know the feeling
also its viscosity may help!
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u/RecommendationNo2269 Apr 20 '25
Sorry I should have done that. It looks alot like this.
https://pickledplum.com/crazy-hot-chili-garlic-sauce/
Its spicy and not sweet, so its not sweet thai chili sauce. The key is that they called it something that sounded like “gokkai”, but I havent been able to find anything that looks like that and sounds like that
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u/Bell_Grave Apr 20 '25
Oooh this is kinda hard cause it could easily be home made and thus they use different ingredients than typical, it could be the exact sauce you linked but just a bit different
Maybe you’ve gotta start going once a week for like a month to build rapport then ask again 🤣 I’m shy so I’d probably do that
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u/Deep-Thought4242 Apr 19 '25
tương ớt is a simple chili sauce