Your Soy Sauce Might NOT Be Soy Sauce!

I was enjoying my Wing Hoe takeout the other day and for some reason I was looking at the soy sauce packets. I noticed the MSG and then looked a bit closer. It didn't even register but then I tasted it again and immediately grabbed the Kikomann from the cupboard. Hmmm.

It's an MSG salt water packet. WTF? It's even made in Chicago. Not to get into the whole MSG thing, isn't it weird that salt, MSG and food coloring (caramel color) passes so easily, and for so long, as soy sauce? Granted, I usually don't use the stuff but a simple taste of the genuine article and you see what you're missing.

I don't know really how they can call it "Soy Sauce" either. Granted duck sauce isn't duck and oyster sauce isn't oyster so I don't think they're trying to pull a fast one necessarily, but come on.

Bottom line is that in addition to the ketchup, mustard and mayo, get yourself a nice bottle of Soy sauce, you might end up needing it.

The packet ingredients: water, salt, caramel color, sugar, monosodium glutamate, 1/10 or 1% sodium benzoate.

Real soy sauce ingredients: water, soybeans, salt, alcohol, organic wheat.

Or is this just news to me?

Comments

[Eddie Lakin]

wow. that is weak. good find. as if regular soy sauce is so expensive that they need to find a cheapie replacement for it. c'mon!

how was the food from wing hoe? that used to be one of my favorite chinese takeouts.

[J.M.]

hah! I never use the soy sauce with my takeout anyway. I think the dishes have way too much sodium as it stands... But I do have a bottle of trader joes low sodium soy sauce in the cabinet for the next time I'm feeling the need!

[Peebo]

that would be glutamate registered by your sense of umami:

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

natural soy sauce is full of free glutamates. and your packet here is full of monosodium glutamate... the best register of umami around...

[ugg store]

One of these days is none of these days.

[retro jordans]

that would be glutamate registered by your sense of umami: