Most stir fry sauces consist of soy sauce, garlic and other seasonings like sesame oil, ginger, rice vinegar and chili sauce. While this stir fry sauce has many of those ingredients, I also added hoisin sauce, which has a sweet and salty taste. PS this recipe has a lot of garlic. I'm of the opinion that you can never have too much garlic, but you can cut it in half if needed.