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Soy sauce spoiler alert: what westerners enjoy is the equivalent of boxed wine
Soy sauce aficionados outside south-east Asia will be disappointed to learn that the premium product is reserved for local consumers with more discerning taste
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Does anyone know of a place where we non-Asians can order premium soy sauce to try?
You can try from here
The thing to search for is Koikuchi Soy Sauce, if you search just soy sauce you'll turn up a bunch of results for Kikkoman since you are searching by english.
This is interesting. I had no idea they do that. There's a Korean take-out place that just opened up here and the soy sauce they serve is made in Korea...but it seems that it might be some made for US tastes?
I think it's a shame they do that though. So many people would love to try the real stuff. Does anyone have experience with the "real" kind of soy sauce from traveling?
All of your Asian food is unauthentic. Even the high-end authentic Chinese restaurants aren't authentic. It's sad, but they're tailoring to American tastes.
I'm going to have to disagree with you on that. You can definitely get authentic Asian food in America, you just have to go to the right places or eat home cooked meals. There's people who are Asian, from whatever country, and have places that they go to that serve authentic meals.
Even then it is still hard because you are having to import certain ingredients and often times there will be a slight change in recipes to keep from having to do that. Eventually over the course of several iterations you get an americanized version of the food. It's just what is available locally.