Someone just gave me Chex mix that’s been seasoned with soy sauce and furikake and now I like Chex mix.

Adrianna Tan

@jovikowi @catsalad generally I would not buy soy sauce from a store that isn’t a Asian grocer. Same in U.S. and in Europe. In lots of places you can get proper soy sauce but only at Asian stores. Even the Safeway / Whole Foods stuff, is kind of basic if they have it at all. I want like a whole range of good soy sauce. My rule of thumb is if it’s in the ‘ethnic aisle’, it’s not for me. More so if it has a weird dragon font

Adrianna Tan

@scunneen there are different Kikkomans. Most of them are better than the average one, the blue and white made in Japan one is very good, there is a lower quality export version made elsewhere i am ambivalent about but would still pick over no soy sauce

FunGuy2PlayWith

@skinnylatte
$$$ but worth it:
https://www.amazon.com/Yamasa-Shoyu-Artisanal-Sauce-Non-GMO/dp/B08Z1R1RDQ

Adrianna Tan

@funguy2playwith I can get that and others at my local store so I’m very thankful

Adrianna Tan

@cavyherd @PJ_Evans soy sauce and fish sauce enhances anything with a tomato base, including many curries and even pasta sauce. You don’t taste it at all, it just tastes fuller bodied

Adrianna Tan

@nathandh my standard is Lee Kum Kee premium soy sauce or first draw

A Guide to Soy Sauce Varieties

There's more to soy sauce than the Kikkoman you buy at the store.

Serious Eats (www.seriouseats.com)

Yamasa for Japanese and Haday for Korean

Moss Wizard

@skinnylatte Do you have a favorite furikake, or do you know anyone who has Opinions about it? Thanks!

Adrianna Tan

@Moss I usually get the Ajishima one that’s in all the stores near me

Just the standard nori one, but if I want to do something different I might get the one with bonito and egg

the roamer

@skinnylatte

So glad you say that. I do a lot of European-style cooking for my family at home, and I normally use soy sauce in the process. I agree, if used correctly the sauce merely enhances the natural flavours of the other ingredients, it integrates rather than dominates.

[In the UK, I buy organic soy sauces from a small company called Clearspring. I am no expert but these are leagues above the supermarket ones. https://www.clearspring.co.uk/collections/authentic-japanese-seasonings.]

Adrianna Tan

@the_roamer yes! Soy sauce and even fish sauce in some Italian foods, anything with glutamates really, gives it more body and you don’t taste it at all. Stews too. Sometimes even salad dressing for me (especially with balsamic vinegar). The soy sauce you get looks really good!