Customer Reviews

Lee Kum Kee Black bean garlic sauce - 8 oz

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This sauce is salty. Before you use the sauce, you need to TRY IT YOURSELF. Then when you use it, you are only suppose to use it in SMALL quantities as in SMALL spoonfuls. Add a little bit first, taste the dish and then add more. This isn't a type of sauce that you can just slather on to something. When you stir fry with it, lets say, black bean chicken, add a little bit, taste and then add more.

DO NOT ADD ANY ADDITIONAL SOY SAUCE to your dish. Black bean sauce is pretty much black beans, salt, soy sauce and oyster sauce. You do not need to add any additional salt or soy sauce.

I bought this sauce because if I'm short on time and I don't have time to soak black beans, this is a good substitute.

Just a warning, sampling the sauce itself is essential, but it is so salty that it may make you gag. However, it is delicious when used in CORRECT quanitities and spread over meat.

Let me remphasize, SMALL QUANTITIES.

Like almost everyone else here seems to have mentioned before me, this is incredibly salty. I'm glad I gave it a few tries to finally get it right because it is a very good sauce when used in moderation. Anything more than 1 tbsp is probably too much, and that might even be pushing it.

not really a sauce, more of a flavoring agent.
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been eating this for years, specifically in dish of cold noodles with peanut sauce and vegetables. We add just a bit, about 1/4 tsp for a large serving. One needs to treat it like a spice rather than a stir-fry-type sauce. It is very strong, salty, and distinctive.
I could live without it, but I choose not to. I'm not sure I'm willing to pay $9 shipped for this, when I used to be able to find it at Safeway. No more. Waa.

I love this sauce, I saute chicken cubes in it and add to a fresh green salad.
Makes a great dinner meal, quick and yummy. Use it in a stir fry, you'll love it.

This is a great seasoning...I knew of the product since i was a kid...As I got my own house and decided to cook, this was first on my list to buy...

For years I've used this sauce in stir fry dishes, such as with cut up chicken or broccoli. I used to be able to find it in my local groceries. But it has become hard to find in stores around here. So it is great to find it at Amazon! It is somewhat salty, but a little goes a long way.

I've cooked with this type of sauce twice now. The first time, I had it with low-sodium soy sauce in the dish I made. It turned out painfully salty to the point that we washed the dish in the sink, re-heated it and ate it that way. Even then, you could taste the saltiness.

Thinking it was my fault for even adding any type of soy sauce to it, I bought a new jar and tried it alone in the dish. Once more, the saltiness was so overpowering, one couldn't even eat anything without having to rinse the dish off.

The tastiness of the black beans and garlic is there, but the saltiness is way too overpowering and is too much to take in.

We are diehard stirfry fans and enjoy all types of cultural foods. If it's different and has lots of veggies and a bit of good meat or seafood, we love it. This sauce is the exception. We could hardly eat a few bites. What a waste of a bunch of wonderful ingredients like scallops and fresh vegetables. The sauce is incredibly bitter and salty.