Yu Ding Xing

土旺來黑豆醬油清

Name: Taiwan Pineapple Soy Sauce
Brand: Yu Ding Xing
SKU: YX010300
Price: 20.50 USD
Availability: SoldOut
Rating: 4.71 (7 reviews)

Taiwan Pineapple Soy Sauce

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Taiwan Pineapple Soy Sauce is made from fresh pineapple mixed with black soybeans and salt, left to ferment together for 180 days in earthenware pots. After fermentation, the pineapple breaks down completely, lending depth rather than sweetness. The result is a soy sauce that’s lighter in color, briny, bright and slightly herbaceous. The brew takes on a hint of the golden color of the pineapple and is brothy in consistency.

Tasting Notes and Usage

briny, bright, vegetal and light

Note: This soy sauce isn't pineapple flavored, but has taken on a light, briny flavor from the inclusion of the fruit in the fermentation process.

Excellent for use as an all purpose soy sauce.

Ingredients and Instructions

Water, black soybeans, pineapples, licorice, sea salt, sugar

420ml
Gluten free
Shelf stable for 2 years from printed manufacturing date. Keep refrigerated after opening.

About Yu Ding Xing

Based in Xi Luo, Taiwan, Yu Ding Xing 御鼎興 is a family-owned soy sauce brewery founded in 1947. They hand make their soy sauces and soy pastes the traditional way: sun-brewed in giant earthenware vessels (many of which have been in use for decades), then cooked slowly over a wood-burning fire.

While tradition is their foundation, under the leadership of third-generation operators Yi-Cheng and Yi-Che Hsieh, the brewery blends inherited know-how with experimental impulse and collaborative spirit to expand the boundaries of soy sauce production. Think soy sauce brewed with Taiwan-grown pineapples or soy paste mixed with local miso.

As with coffee or wine, Yu Ding Xing's ethos and practice illuminate how technique and terroir contribute to the flavor and body of a soy sauce. Learn more about their history and production process in our mini-documentary Time, Terroir, Taiwan.

SKU: YX010300

STARTING WITH THE RIGHT BEAN

Taiwanese soy sauce begins with the black soybean. Compared to yellow soybean, its higher protein content produces deeper umami flavor when fermented. Yu Ding Xing also produces soy sauce in the Chinese and Japanese traditions using a blend of soybeans.

INTRODUCING KOJI culture

After the soybeans are pressure cooked, Yu Ding Xing inoculates them with koji culture. For Taiwanese-style soy sauce, they add toasted rice bran to assist the koji with fermentation, whereas for Chinese or Japanese-style soy sauce, they add wheat.

Fermenting Flavor in Clay Vats

Following a few days of initial fermentation, the beans are rinsed, mixed with sea salt and water, then packed into a terracotta vat to ferment under the sun for at least six months. Many vats at Yu Ding Xing are decades-old.

ROASTING OVER A WOOD FIRE

The brew is extracted from the vat, pressed, then heated over a wood fire to stop the fermentation process. Although labor-intensive, slow-cooking the soy sauce over a fire enhances its flavor.