soy sauce, vinegar, chillies as appetizer?

To clarify, are we talking "appetizers" or "condiments"? My understanding of "appetizers" are dishes that you have before a main meal. Examples in the United states are things like buffalo wings (chicken wings in a spicy tomato sauce) gyoza or pot stickers, grilled pasta stuffed with various meat and/or vegetarian ingredients ... egg rolls, potato skins, fried cheese sticks or various vegetable slices (Japanese have a parallel dish, tempura) Condiments are things that go with a meal -- soy sauce and vinegar, for example, you put ON dishes to enhance the flavor, like ketchup (the bane of all condiments in my opinion ...) Mustard is my favorite condiment, both Chinese when I'm eating Chinese food, or regular when I'm eating a cheese burger. I relatively recently started using malt vinegar for fish and chips. I only use soy sauce for plain rice, or the rice at the bottom of my bowl of chirashi (rice with sashimi on top) There are stuffed jalapeno peppers used as appetisers, but sliced they can be condiments, for nachos and (at least in my case,) hotdogs

in the philippines i often use soy sauce, lemon and cilli pepper. sometimes i used ketchup or gravy on fried dishes. in indonesia, i often use sambal, ground chilli with garlic. really hot. it's an appetizer on most of indonesian dishes whether on meat, vegetables or noodles. =)

Hi Zelmarq! Yes it's always a part of my menu. I love my "appetizers", the bad thing is I end up eating more than I should. lol!