Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Kowloon Factory Is The Best Source For Soy Sauce

"People tell my father he's crazy," says Ken Wong, who manages the factory's day-to-day affairs for his 82-year-old father, Wong Hung. "You need an enormous amount of land to make soy sauce. And land is very expensive in Hong Kong. You might as well build on it." However, according to his son, Mr. Wong senior always says: "We must do things the traditional way." And for the Wongs, the traditional way has paid off. From the family's scruffy-looking Yuen Long compound comes what may be the world's ultimate soy sauce...The difference is the natural fermentation, a process almost totally abandoned elsewhere.
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Picture from MY WOK LIFE