Definition of "soy sauce" [soy sauce]

• A salty brown liquid condiment made by fermenting soybeans and roasted wheat or barley in brine. (noun)

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• "Pinch sugar8-12 cherry tomatoes (or another small variety), halved2 tsps. soy sauce or wheat-free tamariDirectionsHeat a 14-inch wok, preferably carbon-steel, not non-stick, (or a 12-inch, heavy-bottomed, stainless-steel skillet) over high heat until, as Grace Young says, "a bead of water vaporizes within 1-2 seconds of contact.""
• "When Ruth returned to LuLing's apartment, she began to throw away what her mother had saved: dirty napkins and plastic bags, restaurant packets of soy sauce and mustard and disposable chopsticks, used straws and expired coupons, wads of cotton from medicine bottles and the empty bottles themselves."
• "At some point between the dumplings and the chicken disheswashed in soy sauce and poorly spicedthe two drunks picked up the bottle of sake, ducked into the alleyway that ran beside the patio, and hurried off."