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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 09:17:25 JST Adrianna Tan

   Someone just gave me Chex mix that’s been seasoned with soy sauce and furikake and now I like Chex mix. It was so inedible before

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 09:22:16 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Generally, all things I don’t love eating can be improved with soy sauce

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     Nathan Anti Fascist (nathandh@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 09:41:24 JST Nathan Anti Fascist

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     @skinnylatte can you recommend some good brands?

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 10:29:25 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:
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     @aetataureate @catsalad @jovikowi yeah just look for ‘naturally brewed or naturally fermented’ on the label. And no ‘hydrolyzed soy’. My standard one is Lee Kum Kee ‘premium’ or ‘first draw’ light soy sauce but lots of Japanese ones are good too.

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     berserk du soleil (aetataureate@gamedev.lgbt)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 10:29:28 JST berserk du soleil

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     @catsalad @jovikowi @skinnylatte here are two packets and two bottles that say different versions of naturally/traditionally brewed! They say it proudly and directly which helps a lot

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     berserk du soleil (aetataureate@gamedev.lgbt)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 10:29:30 JST berserk du soleil

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     @catsalad @jovikowi @skinnylatte oh I'm not sure if that means stuff here in the u.s. or Europe is good outside of the Really good stuff you'll find at a specialty market. But that's the definitive step up from low sodium stuff, which I think is definitionally all the fake kind.

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     CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow: (catsalad@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 10:29:31 JST CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:

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     @aetataureate @jovikowi @skinnylatte That's good to know because I certainly haven't used any good soy sauce outside of some nicer restaurants.

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     berserk du soleil (aetataureate@gamedev.lgbt)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 10:29:33 JST berserk du soleil

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     @jovikowi @catsalad @skinnylatte so it will say "naturally brewed" if it is, and that's what to get.

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     berserk du soleil (aetataureate@gamedev.lgbt)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 10:29:35 JST berserk du soleil

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     @jovikowi @catsalad @skinnylatte soy sauce is naturally brewed, you can look at cool videos about it on YouTube. The fake stuff is just brown salt water with highly savory processed soy added. The same kind of stuff they use to amp MSG/umami without having to label it. (MSG stuff is fine, but natural soy sauce does not need anything added.)

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     CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow: (catsalad@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 10:29:37 JST CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:

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     @skinnylatte If someone tried to use La Choy "soy sauce" while in Singapore, how concerned would most Singaporeans be?

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     Bodega Cat No Touchy Toe Beans (jovikowi@spacey.space)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 10:29:37 JST Bodega Cat No Touchy Toe Beans

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     @catsalad @skinnylatte

     I usually just buy store-brand low-sodium soy sauce.

     What's good soy sauce? What will spoil me for the cheapo stuff? Recommendations?

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 10:30:40 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @kkeller @halla Pearl River is pretty good for cooking but it’s not my ‘I wanna drink it neat’ soy sauce (I feel that way about some other brands). I prefer Lee Kum Kee myself but it’s just a geographical preference.

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     kkeller (kkeller@curling.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 10:30:41 JST kkeller

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     • Halla Rempt

     @halla @skinnylatte is Pearl River bad? It's what we usually buy here, and what my Chinese mother-in-law recommended (though perhaps she couldn't get any better where they lived?).

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     Halla Rempt (halla@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 10:30:42 JST Halla Rempt

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     @skinnylatte But where can you get good soy sauce... I have Pearl River brand ew sauce, kikkoman not very good sauce and something brewed locally, in Rotterdam of all places, but I think even the proprietors of the local Asian shops use Pearl River.

     When it comes to laojiu, the shops only have salted, sweetened stuff, and I cannot get anything that's really worth cooking with, let alone drinking.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 10:32:51 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:

     @catsalad it would be a novelty!

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 10:34:20 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @chad I’ve made it often without knowing the name.

     It’s definitely the flavor profile I prefer

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     Out with the Chad, in with the (chad@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 10:34:21 JST Out with the Chad, in with the

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     @skinnylatte have you had hurricane popcorn? https://onolicioushawaii.com/hurricane-popcorn/

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     Rachel Rawlings (linuxandyarn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 10:41:42 JST Rachel Rawlings

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     • CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:
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     @skinnylatte @aetataureate @catsalad @jovikowi I like Lee Kum Kee too, but my first love is Yamasa, and San-J is fine in a pinch.

     The other thing to note is that shoyu and "soy sauce" are supposed to be different. Shoyu has a lighter flavor, is gluten free, and is meant for use after cooking, while what most Americans know as soy sauce has wheat added, and is heavier, so it holds up better under high heat.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 10:41:42 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @LinuxAndYarn @aetataureate @catsalad @jovikowi most shoyu does contain wheat, although

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 10:44:24 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @kkeller @halla this is in Rotterdam

     https://www.tokopoint.com/products/lee-kum-kee-premium-light-soy-sauce-500ml

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 11:04:41 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @jovikowi @catsalad generally I would not buy soy sauce from a store that isn’t a Asian grocer. Same in U.S. and in Europe. In lots of places you can get proper soy sauce but only at Asian stores. Even the Safeway / Whole Foods stuff, is kind of basic if they have it at all. I want like a whole range of good soy sauce. My rule of thumb is if it’s in the ‘ethnic aisle’, it’s not for me. More so if it has a weird dragon font

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 11:35:06 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @scunneen there are different Kikkomans. Most of them are better than the average one, the blue and white made in Japan one is very good, there is a lower quality export version made elsewhere i am ambivalent about but would still pick over no soy sauce d

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     scunneen (he/him) 🚋 (scunneen@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 11:35:07 JST scunneen (he/him) 🚋

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     @skinnylatte Does kikkoman count as “good” soy sauce?

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 11:58:56 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @funguy2playwith I can get that and others at my local store so I’m very thankful

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     FunGuy2PlayWith (funguy2playwith@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 11:58:57 JST FunGuy2PlayWith

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     @skinnylatte
     $$$ but worth it:
     https://www.amazon.com/Yamasa-Shoyu-Artisanal-Sauce-Non-GMO/dp/B08Z1R1RDQ

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 13:12:55 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Nathan Anti Fascist

     @nathandh my standard is Lee Kum Kee premium soy sauce or first draw

     https://www.seriouseats.com/do-you-know-your-soy-sauces-japanese-chinese-indonesian-differences

     Yamasa for Japanese and Haday for Korean

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 13:25:43 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Moss Wizard

     @Moss I usually get the Ajishima one that’s in all the stores near me

     Just the standard nori one, but if I want to do something different I might get the one with bonito and egg

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     Moss Wizard (moss@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 13:25:44 JST Moss Wizard

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     @skinnylatte Do you have a favorite furikake, or do you know anyone who has Opinions about it? Thanks!