Spicy sweet and sour sauce

You can use this sauce for many dishes like pork for fish.  This is the same as the basic except this is spicy.

Ingredients

1. 3 chinese table spoon of tomato ketchup (option: replace 1 spoon of ketchup with plum sauce)
2. 1 chinese table spoon of sugar
3. 1 chinese table spoon of soya sauce
4. 1/4 teaspoon of salt
5. 1 teaspoon corn flour
6. 1/3 cup water 1
7. 1 teaspoon of minced garlic
8. 1 chinese tablespoon cooking oil
9. 1 teaspoon of chilli paste, or 1 chinese table spoon of chilli sauce.

Method

1. Mixed ingredient 1 to 6 and item 9 in a bowl.  (tip, add the flour last, and after adding, leave it to sink into the water before stiring, and this will avoid the lumpy flour effect) 
2. Heat up sauce pan or work or frying pan, add oil and garlic, stir fry till fragrance and lightly brown.
3. Add in the mixture and bring to boil, simmer till consistency is right.
4. Add in pre-cooked item to coat them or simply scoop the gravy into a bowl as a sweet and sour dip.