Lee Kum Kee Premium Soy Sauce, 16.9-Ounce Bottle (Pack of 2)

Trust me. The flavor with this product compared to what you get at the grocery store and restaurant is night and day. It is absolute perfection. I will for sure be purchasing again. I might even order some for family members. Oh, and a little goes a long way.

the flavor is much nicer than grocery store soy sauce.

Now I know what was wrong with the taste of my homemade chinese cooking all these years. After doning some research I realized not all soy sauces are the same. First there are dark soy sauces and there are 'light' soy sauces. Until now I didn't realize that when doing basic chinese recipes you want to use 'light' soy sauce WHICH THIS IS! Dark soy sauce with its much stronger flavor if evidently better suited as a dip, etc...Previously in my recipes I had been using that gawd-awful La-Choy imitation caramel dark soy sauce and always wondering why the soy sauce flavor overpowered all of the other ingredients and my finished product was nothing like I'd get at my strip mall chinese joint. Nevermore!This stuff is the real deal, very rich, subtle flavor which leads to a great end product.It's worth noting that the picture on Amazon shows a label that indicates it is a 'light' soy sauce. When my bottles arrived the label DID NOT say 'light' soy sauce. Not to worry, It is light soy sauce as you will readily know when you pour a little bit into a spoon and give it a taste.Not sure if Lee Kum Kee is the best brand for soy sauce, but I learned that Lee Kum Kee invented oyster sauce about 150 years ago and is the 'go to' oyster sauce for anybody wanting authentic chinese flavor, so I fgure they ought to know what they are doing with soy sauce too.I have not been disappointed!

Gorgeous taste, great for flavoring your cooking without overpowering it.

The bottle comes very nicely decorated in a elegant classy glass bottle. The beautiful crema that you can visually notice in the clear glass bottle dances with delight. Any espresso lover known's what crema is, its the frothy film you get from the brewing process used in espresso. The cerma is substantial in the bottle and gives one a sense of a beautiful soy sauce brewery.Your eyes and taste buds will be directed after the fizzy sparkling red champagne splashes the rice to a frosty creamy coating that covers rice the way its suppose to be covered. Not like the faint watery mess we are used to, and when mixing it into rice it leaves us wanting more as the texture seems to drop to the bottom of the plate not enhancing the flavor or the rice. Not this soy sauce, it covers every granule of rice with a thick coating that fizzes on the tongue when sauce meets pallet, like real soy sauce should.The light soy sauce is where most people should be looking when trying to decide what type they want.

Once you taste good soy sauce like this, the “la choy” stuff you get in your local grocery store starts tasting pretty bad. This is a pretty expensive price as it’s much cheaper in local Asian markets, but I needed it sent as a gift so it was the most convenient.

If you're used to grocery soy sauce, or the brown water that comes in those plastic envelopes with Chinese take out, be prepared for a surprise. This stuff actually adds flavor to your food - Loads of Flavor! I dare you to try a taste test with the American supermarket stuff, the Chinese plastic envelope stuff and The Lee Kum Kee stuff. Not even in the same ballpark.However, if you are familiar with Lee Kum Kee products, this won't come as a surprise to you. Their sauces are amazing - always of the highest quality. It is adjusted for American Taste Buds, though. We can get plenty of Chinese imported sauces in our local supermarket (many Chinese people in our town), but we invariably buy the Lee Kum Kee stuff. We haven't been burned yet, except when we bought their Sriacha, and we wanted to be burned with that sauce. (tiny little joke)

3* quite frankly before I've even tried the product, strictly over packaging. I did some research, this company's light soy sauce seemed like it would be perfect for a recipe I want, so while I'm staying with Pearl River for the dark soy sauce, I stopped by my local H-Mart to pick up this company's light soy sauce. And from what I could tell, all they had was a dark soy sauce and a general soy sauce, not a light one. So I ordered it on Amazon, and much to my surprise it showed up looking the same as what they had at the H-Mart significantly cheaper than on Amazon. So I thought they sent me the wrong item. Well I did some research and found out that apparently consumers are supposed to know that there's some sort of color code based on the packages but the light ones aren't labeled light? This is an established professional company and they can't even label their products intelligently so that consumers can differentiate? I wasted extra money and went on a whole adventure with this because they can't label their products right. And this kind of thing not uncommonly makes me walk away from a company entirely and not use them. I'm going to give them a pass on this, but even if it's the best soy sauce in the world, if they can't at least label it intelligently and in a way that makes life easy for customers to differentiate, then how can I give them anything higher than a three? Unacceptable. Label your product clearly so new customers know WTF they're buying! It shouldn't be a difficult concept.