String Bean Sauce is a common seasoning that is very versatile and adds a strong flavor and umami. It has a mellow flavor that is somewhat similar to a mixture of soy sauce and bean paste, but more intense.

Jiuhou Sauce is rumored to have been created by the Foshan chef Liang Zhuhou, and was called Zhuhou Sauce. During the Tongzhi era, at the Sanpinlou Restaurant near the Ancestral Temple in Foshan, there was a chef named Liang Zhuhou, who was particularly good at cooking meat, and whose secret was to make a homemade sauce. As customers loved it, some customers brought their own containers and asked the store to let them sell it.