Please help - which chinese sauce do I use? I am useless with Chinese food

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It's dh's birthday this weekend and I feel sorry for him as he loves Chinese food but it makes me unwell so he always ends up eating Indian food with me.

I found a recipe on Instagram for a Chinese recipe with mince beef, ginger, garlic, broccoli, honey, beef stock and hoisin and plum sauce and promised to cook it for him. I have everything else but can't get hold of the hoisin and plum stir fry sauce. So I got terryaki and also sweet chilli n garlic

So my question is which one do I use instead? I thought the sweet chilli n garlic but then the recipe on the back of the teriyaki packet has similar ingredients. Which one would be best? I am utterly clueless and don't want to ruin it. Thank you

Teriyaki 100%

Hoisin and plum are both sweet and salty,

Teriyaki.

But you can buy both hoisin and plum sauce Lidl. Have also seen them in Waitrose, pretty sure they are in Coop. Too.

Find a recipie for minced beef and one of the 2 sauces you've got, and cook the other recipie another night, when you've found the sauce for that one.

I don't have a Lidl or Waitrose near me sadly. I could trek to co-op though. I managed to find hoisin on its own. Could I put some of that in too if I go for teriyaki?

With that ingredients list, I think you can just use the teriyaki sauce instead of the plum and hoisin, and it will be fine. It will taste great without the plum or hoisin sauces, and he would never know if he doesn't know that the recipe is meant to have them in.

Just order him a takeaway?

Chuck both in.

I think I will have 1 last hunt for the plum and hoisin. Otherwise I will go with the teriyaki. Thank you everyone! A takeaway is tempting but I have the rest of the ingredients so it would be a shame to waste them

That's so sweet of you! Honestly it doesn't matter, do a taste test as you cook and play by ear.

Your recipe doesn't sound awfully authentic; here's a proper recipe that you can use. Chinese people don't usually use mince beef with broccoli -

https://www.madewithlau.com/recipes/beef-broccoli you can sub the oyster sauce with a bit more sugar and a soya sauce. (Although, oyster sauce is readily available at the Co-Op.)

This website has great recipes that are easy to follow videos.