Comments on: Soy Sauce

By: foodlover

foodlover — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:08:16 +0000

Hi, Rasa Malaysia. I truly love your blog, well organised and informative. We can get a variety of asian cuisine recipes here, you did a good job and make great effort.

Soy sauce is a traditional flavoring from our ancestor, it impart delicious of the cuisine and represented chinese history.
Basically, soy sauce divided into two types:
1. naturally brewed where it fermented for at least 4 months under exposure to sunlight
2. HVP – acid hydrolysed vegetable protein where using chemical method, e.g. strong acid to break down the protein in order to get sauce. And this method has produced a chemical substance, 3-MCPD that is toxin and might cause cancer in long term. European and US had banned soy sauce/ oyster sauce contain high level of 3-MCPD, including those brands commented above.

By: Mark@CapturingPenang

Mark@CapturingPenang — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:38:46 +0000

Hi Bee, are your pictures of Thin Seng factory? Unfortunately, they are getting kicked out at the end of the year to make way for a new development project. That will be the end of George Town’s traditional soy sauce makers.

http://www.capturingpenang.com/2011/06/penang-thin-seng-soy-sauce-factory.html

By: Bunny

Bunny — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:42:46 +0000

Pearl River Bridge soy sauce made it onto the UK’s list of toxic brands of soy sauce. Sorry :(

Source: http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/soyadviceleaflet.pdf

By: Nyonya Ingredients: Taucheo (Soy Bean Paste) | Nyonya Food & Recipes

Nyonya Ingredients: Taucheo (Soy Bean Paste) | Nyonya Food & Recipes — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:05:55 +0000

[...] soy bean paste is made from yellow soy beans. The yellow beans are salted and fermented, much like the process of making soy sauce. There are a few variations of taucheo in the market: whole beans, half-mashed, or fine. The [...]

By: Caroline Poh

Caroline Poh — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:36:49 +0000

Hi!

I’ve just asked my elder sister what is the name of the soy sauce that my aunt always buys. It’s called ‘Cap Orang Tua’.

By: Rasa Malaysia

Rasa Malaysia — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:17:09 +0000

Caroline – please let me know the brand, if you can. I think I have seen my late mother using that brand, but don’t know the brand name either. :)

By: Caroline Poh

Caroline Poh — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:20:12 +0000

My family isn’t very particular about our soy sauce brands because there are so many choices here in Malaysia. We buy all locally produced soy sauce. However, my aunt always comes all the way from overseas to stock up on a particular soy sauce. I don’t know the brand…but it has an old man’s face on it and apparently only found in Penang. She says other brands don’t beat this one.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:49:15 +0000

Just wanted to stop by and say that this website is the BEST asian cooking website I have come across.
In terms of soy sauce, being Filipino myself, I know have come to find that soy sauce varies so greatly. I also use Kikkoman or Yamasa for Korean/Japanese cooking, but for Filipino cuisine, I almost always use Silver Swan especially for cooking. If Silver Swan is not available, I look to see if the brand is made in the Philippines. Soy sauce from the Philippines tends to be quite dark and very flavorful, so a little bit goes a long way.

By: Rasa Malaysia

Rasa Malaysia — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:49:35 +0000

Thanks for your warnings about fake foods. Yikes!

By: Forager

Forager — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:38:44 +0000

Great post! I saw a doco on a rare traditional soy sauce maker in HK recently. They said the secret to his great tasting soy was the fact that they’d never washed the pots in the last 100 years so the flavour only builds.. :|

My parents like to use Pearl River Bridge brand soy sauce, so I do too. There are heaps of fake products in China, but this one has good brand equity. The “hair” story might not be related to fake soy – I think it was related to fake hair moss (a black moss that looks like human hair) that was made with flour instead of moss. Also heard about fake soya bean milk (water, colour and flavour), fake fried dace (mock meat), fake bean vermicelli (flour).. Definitely have to look carefully with some dodgy un-reputable Chinese products.