Bottom line up front: Is this even hot sauce?
There are a lot of things going on this this sauce without even opening the bottle. Exactly what is “Green” hot sauce other than green? Lots of chilies? Green peppers? The name alone is confusing. Look at the bottle. It’s got Japanese branding all over. Cherry blossoms. Mount Fuji. A rising sun. That imagery pulls me in a completely different direction that is better served by soy or tamari. Even the Bulldog sauce would be more welcome.
When I opened this bottle I got that smell that is standard of all these sauces, vinegar. My expectations are tempered already.
I put it on my already bland food and did not really notice it at first. So I put more on. Pretty soon the bottle was empty. I used the entire bottle without noticing the flavor of the sauce. It was that bland and unflavored. Sure, there was a tiny amount of heat, but what normally stretches over a week was gone in one sitting.
A bland, nothing sauce is almost as bad as a sauce that does nothing like this one. One that provides mixed messages and ultimately delivers on neither.
