Some eat to live. I live to eat.: Green Beans Attempt

I love ordering sauteed green beans in black bean sauce every time I'm at a Chinese restaurant, but for some reason, I've never tried to make the dish myself. But as I was left to my own devices for a few weeks with a bag of Chinese green beans in the fridge that would go bad and inevitably have to be thrown out if I didn't do anything with them, I thought I'd take a stab at cooking it..somehow...

The preparation part of it went well...I think where I went wrong was the sauce. To be quite honest, I Google'd a few recipes for Chinese String Beans, and since I can't really read many of the sauces that we have in our cabinets, I just experimented by throwing in a little bit of...well, I think I ended up throwing in a little bit of everything to try to get a similar flavor. It wasn't until the end that I realized I was missing a key ingredient - the black bean sauce. But I had no idea where that was hidden, so I had to settle with what I had, which ended up being edible, especially paired with some of the microwavable bao zhi (pork buns), that I had stashes of in the freezer, but I'll have to figure out how they really ought to be cooked at some point.