Japanese White Sauce
Yum Yum Sauce • Shrimp Sauce • Sakura Sauce • The Recipe Finally Revealed
Finally -- the Japanese steakhouse white sauce recipe!
I found hundreds of requests on the Internet for the secret recipe for the wonderful white sauce served at many Japanese steakhouses all over America. It goes by many names:
- White sauce
- Shrimp sauce
- Yum yum sauce (or yummy sauce)
- Sakura sauce
Whatever name you give it, it's delicious. This tangy pink-orange-white concoction tastes so good that most people wind up dumping it all over the fried rice and everything else on their plate!
After 10 years of searching and about 20 batches of trial and error, I finally cracked the code. The full story and the original recipe are right here -- and they have been here since 2006.
The original recipe -- and the record is clear
Over the years this recipe has been copied and reposted across hundreds of websites, often without any credit to where it came from. That comes with the territory on the Internet. But for anyone who wonders whether this is truly the original, the record speaks for itself.
NPR's food desk investigated the history of yum yum sauce and its origins. In their reporting, they specifically cited this site and its creator by name as the source of the first widely accurate recipe published online, noting that it had accumulated hundreds of pages of comments from visitors around the world. Read the NPR article here.
This site has been here since 2006. The recipe has not changed. It is still the best one you will find.