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Illustrative dark-brown strained cooked-bean koji garum, shown as a pourable liquid seasoning in a plain glass bowl.
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Cooked-bean koji garum

Cooked-bean koji garum is a dark liquid seasoning made from soft-cooked beans, rice koji, salt and water. A long warm hold lets koji enzymes break down the mash.

Modern method
· Legumes and seeds
Illustrative still life of yellow-pea koji garum as a dark liquid seasoning, with peas and rice koji as ingredient context; exact batch appearance is not documented.
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Yellow-pea koji garum

Yellow-pea koji garum is a dark liquid seasoning made by holding cooked split peas with rice koji, salt and water while the koji enzymes break down the mash.

Modern method
· Legumes and seeds
Finished red sufu cubes in glossy brick-red sauce, served in a shallow white porcelain dish
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Red Mucor-ripened sufu

Red sufu is tofu grown with an identified Mucor racemosus mould, salted, seasoned with red pepper and zanthoxylum, then matured under brine for 180 days.

Mouding, Yunnan, China · Modern method
· Legumes and seeds
Plain glossy natto in a small dark blue ceramic bowl, with fine sticky strands between cooked soybeans.
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Natto with half-pack starter in a yogurt maker

Pressure-steamed soybeans are mixed with half a retail natto pack, held in a yogurt maker, and chilled; the creator reports a yield of about 300 g.

Modern method
· Legumes and seeds
A small ceramic bowl of plain glossy natto, with cooked whole soybeans bound by fine translucent sticky strands.
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Natto with frozen retail starter

This video account makes natto from soybeans using frozen retail natto as a starter and a yogurt maker. It reports one home batch but leaves the starter mass, soak-water temperature, cooling controls and storage after chilling unstated.

Modern method
· Legumes and seeds
Finished whole-bean Japanese natto in a shallow ceramic bowl, showing its characteristic sticky strands.
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Natto with a documented Bacillus subtilis starter

Steamed soybeans fermented by a named strain of Bacillus subtilis into Japan’s sticky, strongly savoury whole-bean food, bound by the thread-forming polymer the bacteria secrete.

Japan · Modern method
· Legumes and seeds
Finished Japanese natto in a ceramic bowl with delicate sticky threads; plain rice is softly out of focus.
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Natto with retail starter and an oven-light incubator

A 250 g soybean batch uses one of nine retail-natto portions and a towel-wrapped oven-light setup; the thermometer location and starter-pack mass are unknown.

Modern method
· Legumes and seeds
Finished Japanese natto in a ceramic bowl with delicate sticky threads; plain rice is softly out of focus.
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Natto with liquid starter in a foam box

Liquid natto starter is mixed through pressure-cooked soybeans and incubated in a warmed foam box; the creator gives no incubation temperature.

Modern method
· Legumes and seeds
Finnish pea soup with smoked ham, mustard and chopped onion in a white bowl.
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Finnish pea soup

Finnish pea soup simmers dried peas with palvikinkku or a vegetable alternative, then is served with mustard and chopped onion.

Finland · Modern method
Legumes and seeds
Illustrative red oncom cake from pressed soy pulp, with an orange-red Neurospora-colored surface and pale okara interior; generalized image of the published experimental formulation, not a verified batch.
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Red oncom from okara with Neurospora starter

Red oncom is a West Javanese cake fermented from pressed soy pulp with a Neurospora starter, a little tapioca starch and vinegar. It is a different food from black oncom, made on another substrate with another mould.

West Java, Indonesia · Modern method
· Legumes and seeds
Finished douchi, dark wrinkled fermented soybeans in a shallow charcoal ceramic bowl.
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Low-salt Aspergillus douchi

This controlled study protocol makes Aspergillus koji from soybeans and then ferments it with 4% salt. It uses a 150 g jar batch and a defined moisture target; the research method is not a validated home process.

China · Modern method
· Legumes and seeds
Dark brown dried thua nao discs made from black soybeans, stacked on a plain white plate.
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Black soybean thua nao with Bacillus subtilis

Black soybeans cooked, inoculated with a named Bacillus subtilis culture and fermented warm and humid into northern Thailand's thua nao, then optionally dried into thin discs.

Chiang Mai Province, Thailand · Modern method
· Legumes and seeds
Editorial depiction of generic thick brown doenjang paste; the controlled study does not publish a photograph of its K1 sample.
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Rice-koji doenjang from a controlled study

A Korean fermented soybean paste built on rice koji instead of traditional meju blocks, matured warm for thirty days with salt holding the water activity down.

Korea; soybean source reported as Hamyang, Gyeongsangnam-do · Modern method
· Legumes and seeds
Kinema’s sticky split soybeans arranged in a leaf-lined woven basket, with dry soybeans and a separate dish of wood ash.
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Kinema with firewood ash

A sticky fermented soybean food of the eastern Himalaya, made here with a measured addition of firewood ash as an alkaline aid to the bacteria that drive it.

Eastern Nepal · Modern method
· Legumes and seeds