Soy sauce is such a staple of the Japanese diet that now it's even being put on ice cream.
A Japanese company has made a surprise hit by creating a special blend for ice cream - they say it tastes a bit like caramel.
The company, Yamakawa Jozo, said it has sold nearly 6,000 bottles of the soy sauce for ice cream since January. They get between 70 and 80 orders a day.
"We didn't expect this product would become so popular as we worried soy sauce and ice cream were too much of a mismatch and people wouldn't [like] it," said company president Akio Yamakawa.
The special sauce is brewed for more than eight years in wooden barrels. It is then blended with sweet rice wine and starch syrup.
"It tastes like caramel when you put a little bit on vanilla ice cream," Yamakawa said.
The 70ml bottle is priced at 350 yen (NT$100).(AFP)
醬油是日本飲食中不可或缺的必需品。現在，它甚至被作為冰淇淋的一種醬料。
日本一間公司研製了一種冰淇淋專用的醬油，這種特製醬料在市場上出奇暢銷，據說嚐起來有點像焦糖口味。
山川釀造公司表示，自今年一月起，他們已銷售了將近六千瓶的冰淇淋專用醬油。每日的平均銷售量約有七十到八十瓶。
「我們沒有料想到這個產品會如此暢銷，我們本來擔心消費者不會接受醬油配冰淇淋這種不搭調的組合，」山川釀造的社長山川晃生說。
這種特製醬油得先在木桶中釀造超過八年的時間，再加入甜米酒和澱粉糖漿混合。
「當你吃香草冰淇淋時加上這種醬，嚐起來會有焦糖的口味，」山川晃生說。
每瓶容量七十毫升，售價三百五十日圓（新台幣一百元）。 （法新社／翻譯：袁星塵）
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