This Asian Sesame Dressing is one of my all time most-used salad dressings, because it keeps for weeks and it's so easy to make just soy sauce, sesame oil, olive oil, vinegar and sugar.
In Western culture, there are three basic types of salad dressing: Vinaigrette; Creamy dressings, usually based on mayonnaise or fermented milk products, such as yogurt, sour cream (crème fraîche, smetana), buttermilk; Cooked dressings, which resemble creamy dressings, but are usually thickened by adding egg yolks