Let's start with Japanese dark soy sauce, koikuchi shoyu — the readily available all-purpose variety for any recipe that calls for unspecified soy sauce. It may seem counterintuitive ...

Koikuchi shoyu, or dark soy sauce, is the most popular variety of soy sauce. Light soy sauce, or usukuchi shoyu, is paler in ...

At restaurants, the bamboo shoot is often cooked with usukuchi shoyu (light-colored soy sauce) for an elegant effect, but in this recipe, koikuchi shoyu (dark-colored, regular soy sauce ...