I assume there must be someone producing soy sauce at scale in Brazil just with how huge Brazil’s soy bean production is. I don’t know any brands or anything, but I don’t see a whole lot of Brazilian exports where I am and also am not enough of a soy sauce connoisseur to be looking for unusual options, so I wouldn’t be likely to come across any
Weirdly enough, the Netherlands is the second-biggest exporter of soy sauce. Behind China in first, ahead of Japan in third. That’s not the Americas, of course, unless you count it via the Antilles, but it was a surprise to me
Weirdly enough, the Netherlands is the second-biggest exporter of soy sauce.
interesting. whenever i’m in europe i notice a lot of products at asian grocery stores come from NL. tempeh makes sense i guess because a lot of indonesian people live there. vegetables make sense beause their whole country is just a big vegetable farm interspersed with cities. imported asian food makes sense because theitr container ports are some of the biggest in europe. maybe the dutch soy sauce is imported by the barrel from asian countries and rebottled there?
It seems that Kikkoman, at least, do a lot of actual manufacturing in the Netherlands. All of their soy sauce for Europe, Africa, and the western half of Asia apparently comes from their Dutch plant. I know that Dutch sailors were the ones to introduce the sauce to Europe after trading with Japan, so maybe the Dutch just developed something of a tradition with it?
That said, your theory about the ports could still be part of it. They’re definitely not growing all the actual soy beans in the Netherlands, so whether it’s manufacturing or rebottling, the ingredients are going to be coming in by boat for sure
I assume there must be someone producing soy sauce at scale in Brazil just with how huge Brazil’s soy bean production is. I don’t know any brands or anything, but I don’t see a whole lot of Brazilian exports where I am and also am not enough of a soy sauce connoisseur to be looking for unusual options, so I wouldn’t be likely to come across any
Weirdly enough, the Netherlands is the second-biggest exporter of soy sauce. Behind China in first, ahead of Japan in third. That’s not the Americas, of course, unless you count it via the Antilles, but it was a surprise to me
interesting. whenever i’m in europe i notice a lot of products at asian grocery stores come from NL. tempeh makes sense i guess because a lot of indonesian people live there. vegetables make sense beause their whole country is just a big vegetable farm interspersed with cities. imported asian food makes sense because theitr container ports are some of the biggest in europe. maybe the dutch soy sauce is imported by the barrel from asian countries and rebottled there?
It seems that Kikkoman, at least, do a lot of actual manufacturing in the Netherlands. All of their soy sauce for Europe, Africa, and the western half of Asia apparently comes from their Dutch plant. I know that Dutch sailors were the ones to introduce the sauce to Europe after trading with Japan, so maybe the Dutch just developed something of a tradition with it?
That said, your theory about the ports could still be part of it. They’re definitely not growing all the actual soy beans in the Netherlands, so whether it’s manufacturing or rebottling, the ingredients are going to be coming in by boat for sure
the realization is slowly dawning on me that, at some asian restaurant in europe, i may have consumed soy sauce that was made by the hand of a d*tch
hallo hallo in de nederlands we mejken den soojensaus