Kikkoman Naturally Brewed Soy Sauce (250ml)

Other reviewers here have done a much better job at describing the nuanced flavor than I can. If you are looking for your typical very dark, mega-salty soy sauce for a stir fry? This is not it. This is more for soups and foods that you add the sauce to as you eat it. Everything I have tried it on has been delicious: hard boiled eggs, lightly breaded chicken chunks, fish, steak, Asian dumplings, vegetables, quiches. It mixes well with other Asian sauces. Somehow I have not had the chance to try it with sushi and compare it with its darker counterpart. It is not low-sodium, thus does not lack salt-flavor in that way. It has more layers of flavor. It's absolutely delicious. I'm unsure as to what constitutes "umami-ness". Others have used this term to describe it.I happened to also purchase the Kikkoman Lite at the same time, and found it lacking and to taste like mucky refuse. I dumped my half-gallon Costco jug down the drain after I couldn't give it away. So the two are incomparable. This stuff must be popular, as it doubled in price, then was out-of-stock most everywhere. I purchased a 5 or 6 pack to get it at a better price right here. I had found two Asian importers who had it for less, but you could only buy a quantity of three. So with shipping? That made the price break found at purchasing a greater quantity out-of-reach. The greedy part of me does not want you to buy this. But the honest reviewer says "Try one bottle. I think you will be surprised at just how good this soy sauce is, and how very many uses you will find to improve the flavor and moisture content of your food."I bought a sauce here on Amazon prior to this called Yondu Vegetable Umami Sauce that made some of the same claims that I do. I also bought a Kikkomen Noodle Soup Base that had the incorrect ingredients listed. It was actually fish-based. I find having this soy sauce and the fish-based sauce (refrigerated) which is designed to dip into with your noodles, to work independently or together for most things. I found the Yondu Vegetable Umami Sauce which scored very high as a non-fish, fish-like flavor enhancer, soy-like sauce to be a failure. Just in case you are making some of the same comparisons and decisions.

Don’t get me wrong, the shoyu is excellent, but I got it for the bottle. First, I like that you only need to squeeze out a few drops instead of having to dip your sushi and possibly soaking your sushi. Second, the bottle is plastic so there’s no chance of breaking it, plus the eye-catching design is nice for the table and a good conversation starter. Again, the soy sauce, although the flavor is the same, it’s a little more delicate and helps you taste more of the meal rather than the shoyu. Highly recommend for all Asian food lovers!

This is the better soy sauce! And very portable to bring to work, awesome looking label! I don't think I will put it on anything besides rice though. I suppose it could replace Wortecher sauce.

Very good test, but cost in the shops - 5$

Nice Soy Sauce to add in fish, sushi and tartares

Well I started buying these little spring rolls from a major big box store who's name starts with a C and ends with a o. The box includes a similar sauce pack but I always had to keep the packets around for my next set of rolls (kinda messy). So I thought I would see if i could find a larger commercial product. This is much thicker than the ones included and actually tastes better. I have used this on pork chops, chicken, and of course the spring rolls. I will be rebuying this for sure.

Sweet a easier tgan making my own soy glaze... a little goes a long way!

Okay so here is here is the deal, Sandra. May I call you Sandra?So I am not a totally lazy amoeboid incapable of removing jammy pants to go to the store. I'm NOT. But it is Love in the Time of COVID and I am clinging to the life-raft known as my house in New England like I am Rose in the Titanic on that headboard and the water is like a slurpee machine. Ya feel me?So, I am OCCASIONALLY leaving the house on an essential-only basis and I wear ACTUAL pants, thank you very much. Ultimately, I would say that I am doing everything I can to avoid breathing the same air as other people. Ya smell what I'm steppin in, Sandra? Okay. So here we go....I needed something to jazz it up in the kitchen. I am a desk jockey most of the time and while I think my cooking is pretty decent.... we have been without restaurants (even pizza delivery!!) for a couple of weeks. It ain't pretty. I am a foody but there are only so many things you can do to keep things lively for 3 meals a day for weeks on end. How in the name of Sally Jesse Raphael does someone make that many interesting choices for snack-time?!Searching for my path to righteousness, or at least my path to waking back up my taste buds, a friend suggested I start making fried rice with a variety of less customary veggies. Brussels sprouts and sweet potatoes with caramelized onions in fried rice and sprinkled with the obligatory punkin seeds? Yes and ma'am to that one.But then I had to protest (but not too much so as to avoid it being Shakespearean). You can't have that seasonal root veggie sautée-gasmic cuisine and just dump a mundane soy sauce on it. As my southern family might say, "HAYEL NO" to that. So I initiated the hunt for an upgrade to soy sauce that would elevate this snack idea on a seismic scale. I don't want to just march through cuisine-ville. I want to bust through that damn village on a vengeance and take it over. It'll be Charlie-ville when I am done. Or something like that.So... I googled "better than soy sauce". (Rocket scientist here. Clearly.) The first thing to pop up? Ponzu Sauce. Okay... I am KIND OF sure I had heard of it before and I won't take your attitude about it. You got that, Sandra?So... avoiding the grocer during a time of an international pandemic, I looked on amazon. BOOM. Ponzu sauce. So... yeah.... I ordered Ponzu sauce from amazon because there is no such thing as grocery stores delivering in a historic New England village during a shelter-in-place order and I needed to class up my arroz con brussels or risk being totally pedestrian.It arrived a coupled of days later wrapped in so much bubble wrap that I thought it might have been an adopted child. Side note: I had been considering adopting because I thought I was sensing some sort of paternal need but I realized those were just hunger pangs. No kids, more snacks.So I ripped open the ponzu knowing it wasn't a packaged youth and I doused my unorthodox pan concoction with the citrusy yumminess and it proved to be a very wise decision. I have since learned that ponzu is a great marinade for steak or chicken and is sort of the liquid-ier sister of sriracha as far as its usefulness and diversity of applications.What the hell am I saying to you, you ask? Buy it, Sandra. It's delicious.

Amazing soya sauce.. has a nice long fermented smell and taste to it .. already ordered more..Value for money..

Quite expensive, but it's worth it. Just try it, you love it.

with respect certain factory made foods dont save money - buy the best and this is exactly what it is.

omg love this taste mixed with sweet soya sauce !!

A must have for stir fry. Have tried a few different brands and this one is decent so will be in our purchase again list.