These Are The Secrets Of Yum Yum Sauce

Until Terry Ho came along, yum yum sauce was a condiment you couldn't enjoy at home. Ho, who was born into a family of restauranteurs, decided to open a fast casual Japanese restaurant named Hibachi Express, and it was there that Terry Ho's Yum Yum sauce was born. Diners would come and leave with extra containers of sauce, and it was such a success that he decided it was worth bottling it to sell commercially. Today, the Albany Herald says Terry Ho's Yum Yum Sauce, along with its sister condiment, the Japanese Ginger Dressing, can be found in stores across the country.

But the real magic of yum yum sauce is the fact that you can make it at home with ingredients you might already have in your pantry. On his site Japanese-Steakhouse-White-Sauce.com, one man chronicled his obsession with yum yum sauce and how he tried to track it down for ten years with no success — that was until "someone" decided to bottle it (and by "someone" we think he means Ho). The yum yum sauce-obsessed fan worked out it was made with mayonnaise, water, tomato paste, butter, garlic powder, sugar, paprika, and cayenne pepper, which you can tweak according to your preferences. But make it according to his recipe first, before you opt to veer away and adapt according to your preferences.