Korean Soy Sauce: A Buying Guide

Buying Korean Soy Sauce can be confusing. So many brands! Today, I make a mini-lecture for you and break down the details. After this, you should be able to assess the quality of any Korean Soy Sauce. Including Soup Soy Sauce!

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[jacknoonan]

Please do one for gochujang. Whenever I go into Homeplus looking for gochujang, I decide to just leave.

[Angela-bsbz]

I love this....please continue it is so educational...it cleared up the soy sauce issues for me

[aricaice]

This is very educational! I frequent the korean mart here in our country and I just tend to only ask the staff for ingredients I needed based from your recipes. But now, at least I can pick a high quality soy sauce.

[sweetadversity]

I have lived in Asian and love Asian cuisine and Korean products are probably the best quality out there. From soya sauce to sesame seed oil. Even in Taiwan, I go to a Korean grocery and look for Korean products. Love them...& Korean food - NO WORDS YUMMMM! Great video.

[Ttaylort]

This was amazingly helpful! Thank you so much

[mimorichi]

Yes please lecture us more on ingredients, this is so helpful

[omottoke]

I live in Maryland and surround by Korean markers, if you have Lotte or Hmart all products have a white label so you can see the ingredients but you have to peel it off a bit so you can see the raito in Korean. One tip I do want to share, when you find any sauce (any food product) you like take a picture of it, front (logo) and back (ingredients). even if your store doesn't have you can show them the picture and would recommend a similar item. one of the things I wish you can make a video of is Korean meat. Sometimes I'm stay paralyzed because of the thickness and thinness of both pork and beef. my husband was the one who did the shopping and cooking. now I'm doing it and making some mistakes. I made curry the other day and I had the idea of putting thin brisket instead of chicken. honestly it came out yummy, the meat was tasteful and chewy. and I ended up doing the same using rib belly 6mm, again yummy. he still ate it but suggested that I use beef stew chunks. I did and i ended not not liking it. so i hope you can do a video about Korean meat, maybe like categorizing it in "you can use this style of meat in bbq/fried dish and soup based" and also introduce dumplings and steam buns to your fans. Duk Mandu Guk/Korean Rice Cake and Dumpling Soup was the first Korean soup I tried, I was sick at the time and it was the first dish my boyfriend/husband made for me, gobbled up does dumplings mad quick. and steam buns, I honestly don't remember what kind they were but my mother in law made them when we had our first dinner together. I feel like a fatty when I connect my memories with Korean food. like if my husband asked me what he wore on our first date I couldn't tell him but I know what we ate lol

[jasmin.]

I'm currently living in SKorea. I have been wanting to cook more Korean dishes. And, Yes! there are so many soy sauce. This is helpful!!

[KPoplover]

I really liked this episode. It was really helpful. I love to see more episodes like this

[chicagocurly]

Supremely educational! Who knew one could make soy sauce so entertaining (and educational)?! Keep them coming.  

Possible topics - which dishes are made/eaten at what time of year (and why); noodles (best used in which dishes); vegetable dupes (for those not having 100% access to Korean markets, which veggies can be swapped for non-traditional Korean veggies).

[TeenaTee]

Stumbled upon your channel when doing some research on Koran cuisine and I’m so glad I did! It’s so fun and informative! Thank you!

[Hellboy]

I soooo needed this video for the information. You can become so lost when shopping at the Korean market with the variety of names and brands. Would love a video on the different pastes and general uses, too.

[sailiante]

VERY helpful, thank you so much!

PLEASE continue the series, PRETTY PWEASE???

Small suggestions: add links to older recipes where the product discussed is used, and add in links to the products once Gochujar is online! 😉

[katienoona]

I’m chipping away at a big bottle of Kikkoman and now I gotta go check the label haha. This is super helpful! Keep em comin, Teach!! 😁

[yc]

It's called Ganjang in Korean 🇰🇷🎎 there are many types...
🇰🇷Korea/Koreans been making Ganjang / soy sauce for more then 2000 years

[jocasrj]

Great video! You both are so funny and light to teach. It’s delightful to watch!

[Pumpkinpiris]

Sadly we only get mostly chinese/japanese ones here but I found the soup soy sauce thankfully. It seems my chinese supermarket is starting to get more korean things, even those golden curry boxes that we didn't have last year! Thanks for the helpful info (make more definitely) I will keep searching!! Have a good day guys! Can't wait to check out the shop next week!

[Sunshine-rcow]

Awww much needed one...i always struggle to choose the right soy sause...it gets complicated when an entire aisle is full of soy sauce only...

[oneworld]

This helps a lot. Once in a while I love to make kimchi. Sometimes I love to make soup n side dishes but I was so confused on which soy sauce I should use. I went to Korean store last week, so many different types of soy sauce I don't know which one to buy so I just picked one. The one I chose is #2 blended, the one in the red label.. This is very helpful. 😃👍👍👍

[Cyberia]

Professor, I’m going to sign up to all your classes! This is the best video on soy sauce I’ve ever seen. Thank you.