How to Use shoyu in a Sentence

shoyu

noun

• Transfer ⅓ cup lemon-chile shoyu to bowl with noodles and toss to coat.
  — Andy Baraghani, Bon Appetit, 19 Feb. 2017
• Most of the poke of my childhood was mixed with sweet onions, shoyu, and chile pepper water.
  — Rodelio Aglibot, Bon Appetit, 30 Jan. 2017
• The word shoyu in the name refers to Japanese-style soy sauce, and the flavor of the dish as a whole is similar to that of teriyaki.
  — Bon Appétit, 11 May 2021
• One of Tempelhoff’s favorites is the tonkatsu, a rich, creamy broth with pork chashu, shoyu and star anise oil.
  — Tilly MacAlister-Smith Mary Holland Dana Covit Mary Holland Kurt Soller Sara Lieberman, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• Kalua pork, which Wind says is cooked overnight with tea leaves and shoyu (a soy sauce), then smoked and shredded, is another hit.
  — Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 8 June 2018
• The shop opened with shoyu, shio and miso ramen varieties (all $12), each made with a clear broth of chicken and shellfish.
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 16 Jan. 2020
• Among those dishes is a slice of Wagyu served with a white corn puree, local uni, and shoyu sauce made with koji and trimmings of beef.
  — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 16 Oct. 2019
• Tuna took over from the reef fishes as the MVP of the dish, shoyu (soy sauce) replaced the sea salt, and a dusting of powdered chile often added heat.
  — Alejandra Borunda, Bon Appetit, 30 Jan. 2017
• Add shoyu, mirin, sake, water, ginger, maple syrup and brown sugar.
  — Amy Thielen, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
• His other broths are duck shoyu, vegan hot and sour miso, adobada pork and mixed beast.
  — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• Miso, ponzu and shoyu (soy sauce) will drive the sodium up; honey and teriyaki will add extra sugar.
  — Molly Kimball, NOLA.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• The set includes 16 pieces of nigiri and a hand roll-making kit, plus custom wooden chopsticks and house-aged shoyu.
  — Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2021
• A bowl of shoyu ramen ($9.99) has the same accoutrements as the other ramen soups, but the savory and light broth simply gets perfumed with soy sauce.
  — James Patrick Kelly, idahostatesman, 27 July 2017
• White soy sauce, or shiro shoyu, is mild, light and sweeter tasting and made with primarily wheat and less soy bean.
  — Claire Perez, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• Part of the eight-course tasting menu is an oyster dish with xao long bao, cucumber dashi, tosaka nori, and matsutake shoyu.
  — Melanie Kaplan, Fortune, 15 June 2019
• Everyone gathered to stuff the rice into tofu skins simmered with sugar and shoyu for inari-zushi.
  — Hannah Kirshner, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2019
• Expect shio, shoyu, and miso varieties matched with craft beer at both Ramen to Bíiru locations.
  — Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 3 July 2017
• The Ramonara is a ramen noodle variation on the spaghetti carbonara theme, and a potato salad dish comes with salmon caviar, shoyu egg and edamame.
  — Liza Weis, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2019
• One of the restaurant's more popular items is the spicy tuna bowl, which has ahi tuna, edamame, jalapeno, cucumber, sriracha aioli, sweet shoyu, crispy onion and tobiko.
  — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2020
• At the San Francisco Tsuta, Onishi will serve the shoyu ramen as well as miso and shio versions with fresh whole-grain noodles made in-house daily.
  — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• Moon Rabbit’s menu lists three ramens – vegetable, shoyu (soy sauce) and shio (salt) – 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday.
  — Liz Biro, Indianapolis Star, 9 Jan. 2018
• Plenty of ma la seasoning or shoyu, or a plunge in the deep-fryer give it some pizazz, but on its own, most tofu feels just a little too much like diet food for me.
  — Kat Craddock, Saveur, 8 Sep. 2017
• Choose your broth: miso, chicken-soy shoyu, wild-card tantanmen or pork-bone tonkotsu.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 8 Mar. 2018
• Distinctions abound on the menu, too, with the classic shoyu ramen — its broth rich and full of garlicky bass notes — getting upstaged by its more fanciful brethren.
  — Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2019
• There’s the classic tonkotsu, a spicy version called Blaze, a chicken shoyu version, a vegan miso one and the creamy pork-and-fish dipping ramen, Tsukemen.
  — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2019
• The menu includes veggie croquettes, pork chasu rice bowls, shoyu tonkotsu and mazemen ramen.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2019
• Wobbly, barely-holding-together silken tofu cubes, doused in inky shoyu and sprinkled with wisps of scallions.
  — Elyse Inamine, Bon Appétit, 25 Oct. 2019
• Japanese soy sauce, also known as shoyu, is clearer and thinner than the Chinese variety.
  — Claire Perez, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• The Japanese side took a beating from a tempura shrimp sushi handroll that tasted like Chick-fil-A with Russian dressing, and shoyu ramen behaved more like a sloppy stir-fry sloshed in a bowl.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 24 May 2018
• There’s a familiar shoyu ramen — skinny, crinkled noodles with their distinctive alkaline scent in a salty dashi and soy broth.
  — Dominic Armato, azcentral, 11 May 2020

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