Questions tagged [soy-sauce]
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What is the thick black soysauce that they pair with Hainanese Chicken Rice
In Singapore, whenever you order Hainanese Chicken Rice, they will give you three dipping sauces, including a thick black, slightly sweet soy sauce.
It's very different from normal soysauce. What products or recipes should I be looking for?
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What are the tradeoffs between soy sauce and salt to pick when to use which between the 2?
What are the tradeoffs between soy sauce and salt to pick when to use which between the 2?
Does it come down to dry vs wet? Both seem to do the same job of being mediums for adding sodium/saltiness to something. One in a dark liquid form and the…
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How can I preserve soy sauce eggs?
My favorite restaurant has an appetizer (or banchan) that my friends and I all adore. They're eggs that have been soaked in some kind of soy sauce brine and quartered.
Back when I was just learning how to cook, and regularly made terrible, terrible…
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Will a premixed sauce made of corn starch, soy sauce, and sugar degrade in quality when stored in a fridge?
I’ve read this canonical question about food safety, so my question is explicitly not about the safety aspect. I was curious if there were quality implications of storage of the sauce, and what the expected storage lifetime would be in the…
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Season fried rice with soy and teryiaki sauce the first time you cook it?
I'm about to put some rice in the pressure cooker, then I will put in the fridge over night then fry in a wok and season with soy and teryiaki sauce.
I'm wondering how would it be different if I put it in now in the pressure cooker. Never seen…
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Mushroom soy sauce, brand identification or substitution
I am hoping someone knows what brand this. A few years ago I found this mushroom soy sauce. It was exceedingly thick, very darkly colored (almost stained one's fingers, it was so dark and concentrated, and dripped black on lightish foods till it…
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Amounts of MSG and natural glutamates in bouillon and soy sauce
Bouillon has a tasty umami flavor, as does soy sauce. The umami in bouillon can come from added MSG (monosodium glutamate), while the umami in soy sauce is said to arise from naturally occurring glutamates.
What is the amount of MSG or naturally…
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How to make soy/ fish sauce spread over rice?
When cooking stuff like fried rice, I often run into a problem that the sauces don't really mix throughout the rice, rather just attach themself on a small bit of it. Any way I can fix this?
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