Flavour Building
Boiling miso aggressively. Not cooking shrimp paste before adding. Adding too much. Treating all miso as interchangeable — white is sweet and mild, red is strong and salty. Using gochujang as hot sauce — it's sweet, salty, and umami-rich, not just spicy.
Boiling miso aggressively. Not cooking shrimp paste before adding. Adding too much. Treating all miso as interchangeable — white is sweet and mild, red is strong and salty. Using gochujang as hot sauce — it's sweet, salty, and umami-rich, not just spicy.
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