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Definition: Soy Sauce |
Soy SauceNoun1. Thin sauce made of fermented soy beans. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Soy SauceSynonym: soy (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Soy sauce (Chinese language: in Mandarin, 醬油 pinyin jiàngyóu , in Cantonese, 豉油 see yau; Japanese: 醤油 shōyu) is an Asian cooking ingredient made from fermented soybeans. Although there are many types of soy sauce, all are salty and earthy tasting brownish liquids used to season food while cooking or at the table. Soy sauce forms an important part of many Asian cuisines. Different countries make very different soy sauces, and it is rarely appropriate to substitute one for another (e.g., Chinese for Japanese). Japanese soy sauce is called shoyu. The English name soy came from the word "Soi" (そい) of Satsuma dialect Japanese.
Soy sauce comes in two varieties - 'light soy sauce' (生抽), which is a thin lightbrown liquid, and 'dark soy sauce' (老抽), which is essentially the same, except with caramel added for colouring and thickening. Dark soy sauce is used when it is desired that the dish be coloured, or when used for a dipping sauce.
Soy sauce contains a small amount of naturally occurring MSG. It is also extremely salty, so it is not a suitable condiment for some people. Low-salt soy sauces are produced, but it is impossible to make soy sauce without using some quantity of salt.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Soy sauce."
Crosswords: Soy Sauce |
| English words defined with "soy sauce": brown sauce ♦ Chinese brown sauce, chop suey ♦ sukiyaki ♦ teriyaki ♦ Worcester sauce, Worcestershire, Worcestershire sauce. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Pepper and Soy Sauce Salt (1981) | |
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Health | Soy sauce, meat tenderizer, and a variety of packaged foods contain this chemical which is touted as a flavor enhancer. (references) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
soy sauce | 72 |
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| Language | Translations for "soy sauce"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 醬油 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sojasauce. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | soijakastike. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sauce de soja. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sojawürze, Sojasoße (soya sauce), Sojasauce. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | salsa di soia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 醤油 , 垂れ (gravy, hanging, lapel, pocket flap, skirts of a coat, straw curtain), 正油 , み使い (angel, be impatient, bushy, conspicuously, crunch, giant flying squirrel, incomprehensible muttering, irresistibly, itch, itchy, make good use of, make the most of, morose, munch, nausea, offended, queasy, ragged, rugged, shaggy, stuffy, suddenly, sullen, surge of anger, talking in sleep, to be fretful, to be in a spleen, to be in a temper, to be in ill humour, to be irritated, to be vexed, to become angry or sullen, to become serious, to blow, to feel irritated, to feel offended, to feel sick, to fret, to have the appearance of ~, to jerk off, to masturbate, to show signs of ~, to take somethingseriously, woman's desire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たれ (adjectival suffix for a person, gravy, hanging, lapel, pocket flap, skirts of a coat, straw curtain), しょうゆ, むらさき . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oysay aucesay molho de soja. (various references) соя (soy, soya, soybeans). (various references) salsa de soja. (various references) sojasås (soya sauce). (various references) toyo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-o-s-s-u-y" | |
-1 letter: caseous, causeys, cayuses. | |
-2 letters: causes, causey, cayuse, coseys, sauces, scouse. | |
-3 letters: ascus, cases, casus, cause, coses, cosey, cusso, essay, oases, sauce, saucy, souse, soyas, syces, youse, yucas. | |
-4 letters: aces, ayes, case, cays, cess, coss, cosy, coys, cues, cuss, easy, ecus, eyas, ocas, oses, ossa, oyes, sacs, says, seas, secs, sous, soya, soys, sues, syce. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-o-s-s-u-y" | |
+3 letters: pelycosaurs. | |
+4 letters: ascomycetous, consensually, countryseats, psychosexual, sequaciously. | |
+5 letters: autocatalyses. | |
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