Light Soy Sauce
Soy sauce is a condiment made primarily with four ingredients.
Light soy sauce. Read the dark soy sauce vs. Join the discussion today. Light soy sauce discussion from the chowhound general discussion soy sauce food community. There are many different kinds of soy sauce but the three most common are light dark and thick soy sauce these are what most china and taiwanese people use in the kitchen.
Dark soy sauce is one of the two types of soy sauce used most often in chinese cooking. Back in china we mostly use light soy sauce other than the regular soy sauce. The other is light soy sauce. Light soy sauce 生抽 sheng chou is a thin reddish brown liquid condiment made from fermented soybeans and wheat it is one of the most crucial ingredients in chinese cooking along with rice vinegar and shaoxing wine it is quite salty and has a rich soy aroma.
Also called usukuchi this is made from more soybeans and less wheat and it has a lighter appearance and milder aroma 2 3 5. Light soy sauce is typically used for cantonese style stir fries and dipping sauce such as sauce for sushi and fried tofu. Soybeans wheat salt and water.