

The taste of Kyushu is sweet soy sauce!
The local taste is in soy sauce! It is no exaggeration to say that each region has its own taste of soy sauce. There are five types of soy sauce: dark soy sauce, light soy sauce, white soy sauce, re-prepared soy sauce, and tamari soy sauce. Among them, 80% is said to be dark soy sauce nationwide. Kyushu soy sauce is a traditional soy sauce with a traditional taste that has been handed down from ancient times as a mixed soy sauce that adds sweetness and umami to this dark soy sauce.
Enjoy using different soy sauce!
Hokkaido and Kyushu are the treasure trove of ingredients! There are also many izakaya and restaurants with the signboard of Kyushu. "Kyushu Fair" is frequently planned in department stores and supermarkets. How about adding the sweet soy sauce of Kyushu soy sauce to your table in addition to your usual soy sauce? The range of seasoning has expanded, and it is a taste that both small children and foreigners will be pleased with the addition of "sweetness".
"Sweetness and umami" in dark soy sauce
The added soy sauce is sweet soy sauce
Why don't you add sweet soy sauce to your usual dining table?
The charm of sweet soy sauce rooted in the local area of Kyushu

Why Kyushu soy sauce is sweet
➊ Sugar was the first to be imported in the Edo period
❷ Sweetness suits the hot climate of Kyushu
❸ Sweet and spicy taste that goes well with shochu

◆ Sugar from the Netherlands to Nagasaki, Japan ◆

It is said that sugar was brought from the Netherlands to Nagasaki during the Edo period, when the country was isolated, and sugar culture took root throughout Kyushu. Sugarcane cultivation has become popular, and sugar has also been produced.
◆ Sweet and spicy taste that suits the hot climate of Kyushu ◆

The temperature in tropical Kyushu is high, and when fishermen went fishing, they mixed soy sauce with sugar and used it as a seasoning for fishermen's rice. In the high temperature, sweet soy sauce was convenient to add sugar to soy sauce to remove salt and sugar.