Tuesday, September 19, 2006

soy sauce

It's alarming to see the ingredients in the soy sauce sent with your chinese take-out. 

"Water, salt, caramel color, sugar, mono sodium glutamate, 1/10 of 1% sodium benzoate (preservative)"

This is not what it should be.  I Wikipedia'd it:
Soy sauce (US) or soya sauce is a fermented sauce made from soybeans (soya beans), roasted grain, water and salt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soy_sauce

Isn't that just repulsive.  I never use this.  But I don't know if restaurants lower themselves to use this.  Maybe this is how your lunch special costs less than your monthly bank fee.

In any case, my hot & sour lemon grass soup is superb.  Make my nose run.

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