Soy sauce, as the name implied, is made from soybeans fermented by Aspergillus oryzae. Generally salty, since you do add coarse salt in the process, this condiment have quite a lot of varieties, depends on the regions, beans used, ingredient, production process -- you get the idea. read more
Sweet soy sauce (Indonesian: kecap manis) is an Indonesian sweetened aromatic soy sauce, which has a dark colour, a thick syrupy consistency and a unique, pronounced, sweet and somewhat molasses-like flavor due to the generous addition of palm sugar.[1] Kecap manis is widely used with satay. read more