Condiment
Classic XO Sauce
S tier
Classic XO is Hong Kong luxury chilli oil-paste: dried scallop, shrimp, ham, chilli, garlic, the 1980s hotel invention. It should taste of seafood and heat, not only of oil and flake. A spoon on noodles or fried rice. Vegetarian XO exists; this leaf is the seafood original. Premium scallop-forward is even more dried-bei.
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Preparations
Fried RiceNoodlesSpoon
Traits
1980sChilliDried Scallop ShrimpHK HotelLuxuryLuxury HeatNot Only OilSeafood
History
HK
Hong Kong hotel kitchens created XO sauce as a luxury seafood chilli condiment.
HK
Jars of classic XO reached home kitchens.
Classic XO was specified against cheap chilli oils using the name.