Day 25: Not Soy Sauce; Return of Crazy Cartoon Natto Chef

Also, it came with a thick paste (packet at left). This follows on an interesting thread started by Morgan, in which she informed us that the packets in most natto boxes are not soy sauce, as we had believed, but rather tsuyu. I have no idea what the packet in this box was -- it tasted a little bit like the bad "duck sauce" you get with cheap Chinese take out, and had little flakes of something (fish?) in it. At any rate, it didn't do much to enhance the flavor, and I definitely prefer the tsuyu and mustard packets in most natto boxes.
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It says "shisonori" on it which means shiso sauce.
I'm surprised you didn't like the taste of shiso -- I love it.
It seemed a little too sweet, and there wasn't enough of it to really even taste it when mixed in with the natto. Maybe it's just bad shiso.
Shisonori is some form of seaweed. I tried this brand and I don't like it either. I found some leftover soba noodle soysauce and used that instead.
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