orange goop

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frindle

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Hello. I'm wondering what orange goop is in this context below.
Is it a kind of sauce or something?
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Yum Li's isn't like most Chinese restaurants, where they rush the food out right away.
Here, you have to wait. No bowls of crunchy noodles and orange goop, either.
It's just ice water and the smell of other people's dinners.
 

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It's orange-coloured sticky/semiliquid sloppy stuff. (COED)

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I'd call it gloop.
 

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So would I.
 

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In this case, you could also call it "duck sauce."
 
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