My parents are coming to visit me for a month and I’ve sent them on side quests to collect things to bring over here for me:
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My parents are coming to visit me for a month and I’ve sent them on side quests to collect things to bring over here for me:
- coffee beans from my favorite Singapore roaster (Tiong Hoe Coffee)
- shampoo from Watson’s
- Swiss chocobits cereal
- spice packs and sambal (don’t like the sambal here)
- pineapple tarts
- bak kwa
- dark soy sauce (I can’t get the dark soy sauce I like here, it’s all the HK style ones I don’t like) -
@skinnylatte which is the good dark soy sauce?
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@skinnylatte Tell me more about the ones you like? I think I mostly get the HK-style ones here in Vancouver as well...
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Malaysian / Singapore style dark soy sauce is thick as molasses
A perfect blend of salty with a very slight sweetness
Generally I prefer the brands from Singapore or Malaysia for soy sauce but it’s hard to get abroad. I just use Lee Kum Kee (from China / HK) for light soy sauce, which is great, but dark is meh. It’s just not right
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@chetwisniewski they have the texture of thick molasses
https://fenghegarden.com/products/first-extract-dark-soy-sauce
It’s not just a darker salty sauce
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@mayintoronto this is good https://fenghegarden.com/products/first-extract-dark-soy-sauce (I know people who have bought it in Canada)
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@chetwisniewski I think they have this brand in Vancouver
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For some Hokkien and Teochew dishes that style of dark soy sauce is essential.
Like braised pork or braised tofu for example. It all starts with a good caramelizing with spices. Quite similar to adobo
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@skinnylatte The Thai thick/sweet soy is too sweet? I usually have that (Healthy Boy brand) at hand - it's the thick molasses-y kind (but sweet too)
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@SRDas yeah it’s not the right taste or blend
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@skinnylatte loved Hokkien cuisine when I was introduced to it when I lived in Toronto many years ago, and I similarly loved adobo when I was introduced to it by my filipino friend when I lived in Edmonton years later. But I never connected the dots between the two until now. Interesting!
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@johncormier yeah most Filipino Chinese are Hokkien
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Mark Connolly 🍻 🚴🏼♀️ (he, him, his)replied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte @mayintoronto The first link gives me a “closed” (error?) message. Do you have another link, or the name?
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Mark Connolly 🍻 🚴🏼♀️ (he last edited by
@uxmark @mayintoronto feng he dark soy sauce
