21.   In its most familiar guise, it is served cold, plain, on a bamboo mat with a dipping sauce or adorned with grated fresh vegetables.

22.   In Japan, gyoza are served with hot mustard and soy sauce-based dipping sauce.

23.   Like soba noodles, these are often served cold with a dipping sauce.

24.   Like the other dipping sauces, any leftovers are great on sandwiches or mixed into tuna salad.

25.   Melted with butter, and with garlic, they form a powerful dipping sauce for raw vegetables.

26.   Mix them together to make a dipping sauce for the meat.

27.   Nothing is more elegant as a first course than a steamed artichoke with a dipping sauce.

28.   Nuoc cham, a dipping sauce used throughout the country with most finger foods, is made with nuoc mam, fresh chili, garlic, lime and sugar.

29.   Remove to a serving platter and serve at once with the dipping sauces.

30.   Roasting the garlic gives this dipping sauce a milder, sweeter garlic taste, so you can eat as much as you like without fear of garlic breath.