12 Traditional Sauces You'll Find In Japan - Chowhound

TY Lim/Shutterstock Growing up in a Japanese-American household, we always had certain staple sauces in our pantry. I would constantly watch endless bottles of soy sauce and rice vinegar slowly become empty until they were immediately replaced. A similar scenario happened when I was the lead chef at a Japanese eatery in Southern California — bottles and bottles of these quintessential Japanese sauces were used to…