Is there really a difference? Use whatever, it's just salt in the end.
>>22067924not really. kikkoman is already one of the most dogshit brands of shoyu. if that's what you're used to you might as well just use road tar
>>22067924the one on the bottom is not soy sauce
>>22067924>Is there really a difference?yes.the packets are designed to slowly leech the soy into the plastic, making it gay.
>>22067928kikkoman is completely acceptable. no idea who came up with that meme.
>>22067947if you can easily find something at the store and you've been exposed to it your entire life the internet is supposed to tell you it's bad so you don't accidentally think you have a decent life.
>>22067924Kikkoman is traditionally brewn and only has 4 ingredients (water, soybeans, wheat, salt) like all real soy sauce. That packet is artificially colored salt water with added bullshit. Benzoate? Guar gum? Not soy sauce.
>>22068027It’s American. What do you expect?
>>22067924It's not just salt you philistine it's a fermented sauce
>>22068027>brewn
Cheap soy sauce has more ingredients than kikkoman and is better for cooking and marinating. Kikkoman is better for dipping.
>>22068039so is that kikkoman
>>22068039>what do you expectSo it tastes better than anything in Europe?
>>22067947Performative faggots like >>22067928 who oversell their point and don't have enough self-reflection to realize that they just look like poser retards to anyone that actually eats asian food on the regular.
>>22068560I don't even know the brand I enjoy most. it's some korean shit I buy and the label is all sticks and circles fuck if I know what it means. keep buying your soy sauce at walmart idgaf. I buy light soy sauce and dark soy sauce I use them for different things. kikkoman is pretty shit in general get over yourself
>>22067928>shoyuweeb
>>22068566>I buy light soy sauce and dark soy sauce I use them for different things.Everyone who has ever made a chinese dish as done this. You're simultaneously a performative faggot and a clueless retard if you thought this was worth mentioning.>walmartI get my asian ingredients at a small store in town but kikkomon is perfectly fine. Don't know why you're telling other people to get over themselves, maybe take your own advice.
>>22068583>I get my asian ingredients at a small store in townso you also agree that big chain grocery stores are not it? >you're a performative faggot who doesn't shop at walmart>I'm better than you and I'm a performative faggot who doesn't shop at walmartseriously? do you see what you're saying?I don't care what you say, kikkoman is dogshit. might as well just put salt on it.
>>22068592Post rice.
>>22068593I have a bunch of different types of rice. extra long grain and italian rice and also extra short. it all has its purpose and you need to treat rice differently depending on the type
>>22068592You can get some products fine at walmart(like soy sauce), but there are many things they don't carry so I go to a place I know for those things. It's not a big deal man. If knowing that there are light and dark soy sauces is something you thought was worth mentioning in this argument then that tells me enough about you honestly. Go ahead and tell me that lo mein and chow mein are actually different dishes too if that is another nugget of wisdom you hold close to your chest as a killer point.
>>22068598I just mentioned that. I also use rice vinegar and rice wine. and I've tried indian food where I need to marinate chicken in fucking yogurt. I've tried lots of types of curry too. I haven't been to SEA but I've attempted to make their dishes here and there. I'm a good cook. I mostly go to a restaurant and order something before I try to recreate it myself. I'm mostly a southern cook and I make bbq. growing up I mostly ate long grain rice with butter and salt
>>22068605So you’re a ricelet. Show me your rice cooker.
>>22068609He doesn’t own one.
>>22068609>rice cooker>he cooks the arsenic from the rice water back into the rice
>>22068609I own a few zojirushis and one is a 8 cup cooker I bought at a thrift store but it's too big. I own some no name brand too but I forget what it is. I also cook ramen in it because it works well for thatI am still not okay with what I hear japanese people do. they leave their rice cookers on the counter for a whole day? I know it seals but I don't trust it. I bought a glass lid and I take the sleeve out of it and put it in the fridge
>>22067929Change is coming through my shadow.
>>22068618>He doesn’t wash his rice. >>22068619All you needed was (one) high quality rice cooker that you would have proudly displayed on your counter. Pathetic.
>>22068592keki took a culinary class in Japan a while ago (it was the wife's idea) and guess what. we used kikkoman soy sauce. but sure, if you're too much of a contrarian to tolerate something that is easy to find and perfectly decent, do whatever you want.
>>22067924Get the good stuff
>>22067924Yes. Have you lost your sense of taste?
>>22067928>t. neckbeard weeb pseud
>>22068566i buy my kikkoman at the japanese grocery store across the street from my apartment which is where the actual japanese people in my area also buy their kikkoman. if you think kikkoman is some kind of american thing and not popular in japan you're a clueless retard.
>>22068566"Kikkoman is the undisputed number one soy sauce in Japan and the world by market share. Founded in 1917 and based in Chiba Prefecture, it is to Japanese soy sauce what Heinz is to ketchup. The vast majority of Japanese households and restaurants use it as their everyday staple."Your overlords seem happy enough with it, fat weeb
>>22067928Any brand recommendation?
>>22069190>kikkoman is some kind of american thing and not popular in japanand why would this be a quality indicator?there's plenty shitty "local" food that normies of every country buyKikkoman is just the defaultbecause it's acceptable, consistent, with good availability and pricebut if you search just a little bit you can easily find better oneseven a yamasa shinmi is already and upgrade and available in stores if you know where to goand it's not like you cannot get actually good alternativesjust order Takesan Kishibori Shoyu onlineYamaroku, Yamasan kyoto UJI, Murasaki Purple are all easy to order onlinemy personal favorite isn't even from Japanit's a saishikomi shoyu made in Berlinpic related
>>22069221okay but this is irrelevant. point is, kikkoman isn't "dogshit" and isn't comparable to road tar.
>>22068566post the bottle
>>22068605I didn't ask you for your life story, I called you a performative retard because you're being one.
>>22069179This and their oyster sauce are staples for me, love this funky stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz-mJed_bP0
>>22069221>even a yamasa shinmi is already and upgrade and available in stores if you know where to go>and it's not like you cannot get actually good alternatives>just order Takesan Kishibori Shoyu online>Yamaroku, Yamasan kyoto UJI, Murasaki Purple are all easy to order online>my personal favorite isn't even from Japan>it's a saishikomi shoyu made in Berlinthis reads like that madara uchiha copypasta
>>22069354itachi's egg never would have stuck if he used a higher quality shoyu
