Soy sauce is a kitchen staple, a flavor powerhouse that offers such a huge umami punch that it puts salt to shame. Amp up that sauce with extra flavor — mushroom, shrimp, smoke — and it’s magic, a ...

Forget salt and pepper. As the product of two generations of Chinese restaurant chefs — not to mention a literal thousand years of Hokkien Han Chinese ancestry — soy sauce was the fundamental ...

From Cantonese chow mein and Thai pad see ew to Japanese nigiri sushi, many of the dishes we know and love just wouldn’t taste the same without soy sauce. But not all bottles of this essential dark, ...

You know what it is, but do you know the difference between light soy and dark soy? And what about Chinese and Japanese sauces? From the dairy section to the tinned veggie aisle, supermarkets can be ...