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A bowl of pale sweet rice-miso glaze with a spoon, beside a lightly glazed cooked aubergine half.

Sweet miso glaze

A Japanese-style glaze of pale rice miso, water, sugar and rice vinegar, heated gently until it coats a spoon and spread over cooked aubergine, tofu or vegetables.

Japan · Modern adaptation
· Condiments
A glossy deep reddish-brown miso dengaku glaze in a ceramic bowl, with a spoon lifting its thick texture.

Miso dengaku glaze

A sweet-salty Japanese glaze of miso, mirin, sake and sugar, warmed until thick and spread on grilled tofu, eggplant, daikon or konnyaku. Regional versions in Aichi use red miso and dashi.

Aichi Prefecture · Traditional method
· Condiments
A shallow cream ceramic bowl holds finished golden-brown barley miso, its softly moist coarse paste flecked with visible barley grains.

Barley miso (mugi miso)

A Japanese soybean paste fermented with barley koji and salt, made mostly in Kyushu, Shikoku and western Japan. It is sweet, savoury and grainy.

Kyushu · Traditional method
· Condiments
Thick brick-red Korean gochujang in an unbranded earthenware jar, with a wooden spoon lifting a scoop; original editorial reconstruction.
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Gochujang with glutinous rice and meju powder

Korea’s sweet, savoury and fiery red paste of glutinous rice, barley-malt enzymes, fermented soybean meju powder and chilli powder, matured in earthenware.

Sunchang, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea · Traditional method
· Condiments