Kamebishi's 20-year-aged soy sauce is the most expensive soy sauce ... For comparison, most popular soy sauces can cost less than a bottle of water, and other aged artisanal soy sauces generally ...

But the increasing use of airtight containers to bottle soy sauce by brands has begun breaking that habit in the last 10 years or so, as they allow the condiment to be kept at room temperature.

As a vegetarian, I’ve loved and used soy sauce for hundreds of dishes in my lifetime, from freezer-friendly potstickers, to rich and creamy peanut sauce, to 15-minute fried rice. So you can imagine my ...