also: カキあぶら
A thick, savory sauce made from oyster extracts, used in Chinese and Japanese cooking. Often referred to by the loanword オイスターソース.
See also: オイスターソース
Adding a little oyster sauce to a Chinese stir-fry gives it depth.
In this recipe, you can use oyster sauce instead of the loanword version.
Standard kanji spelling using 牡蠣 for oyster.
Mixed kanji-katakana spelling; common in product labels and recipes.
Compound of 牡蠣 (kaki, 'oyster') and 油 (abura, 'oil'). The reading カキあぶら is a mixed reading of the same kanji.