How to Use shoyu in a Sentence
shoyu
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Transfer ⅓ cup lemon-chile shoyu to bowl with noodles and toss to coat.
—Andy Baraghani, Bon Appetit, 19 Feb. 2017
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Most of the poke of my childhood was mixed with sweet onions, shoyu, and chile pepper water.
—Rodelio Aglibot, Bon Appetit, 30 Jan. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Add shoyu, mirin, sake, water, ginger, maple syrup and brown sugar.
—Amy Thielen, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
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His other broths are duck shoyu, vegan hot and sour miso, adobada pork and mixed beast.
—Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Mar. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Expect shio, shoyu, and miso varieties matched with craft beer at both Ramen to Bíiru locations.
—Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 3 July 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Choose your broth: miso, chicken-soy shoyu, wild-card tantanmen or pork-bone tonkotsu.
—San Antonio Express-News, 8 Mar. 2018
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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
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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
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The menu includes veggie croquettes, pork chasu rice bowls, shoyu tonkotsu and mazemen ramen.
—Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2019
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Wobbly, barely-holding-together silken tofu cubes, doused in inky shoyu and sprinkled with wisps of scallions.
—Elyse Inamine, Bon Appétit, 25 Oct. 2019
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Japanese soy sauce, also known as shoyu, is clearer and thinner than the Chinese variety.
—Claire Perez, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Oct. 2019
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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
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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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