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Miso

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Fish Sauce

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Double fermented umami. Both are products of amino acid decomposition — miso from soy, fish sauce from marine protein. They layer and intensify each other.

Ancient fermentation — time compressed into flavor

fermented-umami amino-depth savory-saturation
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David Chang umami laboratory Korean-Vietnamese fusion
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