Does anyone have the AUTHENTIC CHINESE RESTAURANT recipe for sweet and sour sauce?

I do not live near a good asian market so please don't recommend "go to your local asian market and pick up a can of sauce".



If you do recommend a product please be as specific as possible so i may try to order it.



I have heard the restaurants buy the stuff in powder form and that it is made of geletin and liquified with pineaplle juice but all my attempts have failed.



I am not interested in homemade recipes using ketchup and such...i want the real deal chinese restaurant bright red sticky super sweet red sauce. I have been looking for over a year and I am DESPERATE!Does anyone have the AUTHENTIC CHINESE RESTAURANT recipe for sweet and sour sauce?
The "chinese" sweet and sour sauce here doesn't taste like the ones from Hong Kong, China. I'm telling you because I used to work in a restaurant and I'm chinese. Sweet and sour sauce is made from ketchup, pineapple juice and sugar, believe it or not.



Since you don't like home made, the next best thing is to get LEE KUM KEE's brand of sweet %26amp; sour. It is as authentic as you can get to eating the real deal in china. Proper Sweet and sour sauce is not bright red as they make it out here, but an true orange color.



Unfortunately, LEE KUM KEE's brand is only found in chinatown stores because they're imported from Hong Kong.Does anyone have the AUTHENTIC CHINESE RESTAURANT recipe for sweet and sour sauce?
Unfortunately, what you want is NOT authentic chinese. As for getting the same product at home that you have tasted in American Chinese restaurants...the fluorescent orang/red sweet sauce...it is available in #10 cans from asian food distributors. My partner owns a chinese take-out and this is what he uses. No powder.Does anyone have the AUTHENTIC CHINESE RESTAURANT recipe for sweet and sour sauce?
It's true that sweet %26amp; sour as you know it is NOT an authentic Chinese sauce - and it's also true that each Chinese restaurant / take-away has it's own way of making it! Some might make their own sauce, other's will buy tins of it ... it's like family recipes, you think your own family's apple pie recipe is THE authentic one, but then you find out that everyone else's is different!



Either ask the people at your favourite restaurant - or spend ages trying every single sweet %26amp; sour sauce available, and hope that you find the 'right' one..!
basically any sweet and sour sauce is an acid and a sugar that are mixed together and then reduced to a syrup stage. A cornstarch slurry could also be whisked into the sauce to thicken it and maintain product volume.Just remember that all starch thickened sauces need to be returned to a boil in order to properly thicken

I don't know if "Tranny fluid red "s readily available in the food coloring section of your local market , but if you use white vinegar and or pineapple juice and white sugar + red food coloring you should be able to figure it out.