Soy sauce

Soy sauce is a fermented sauce made from soy beans, used as a condiment, or to add overall flavour while cooking.

There are many sauces based on soy. Among them:

• Kecap manis - sweet and usually thick

(the Indonesian 'Kental' means strong (...taste) or thick, so mainly indicates whether the kecap is syrupy or not - often sweet but not necessarily)

• Kecap asin - salty, still sweetish compared to some others

• (Chinese) 'Dark soy sauce' is primarily salty
• (Chinese) 'Light soy sauce' (?)

• Japanese soy sauce (what is generally known as that, say, Kikkoman) is generally salt and sour

See also

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soy_sauce