Tauco, Taucu, Taotjo or Tauchu () is a paste made from preserved fermented yellow soybeans in

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and

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cuisines. Tauco is made by boiling yellow soybeans, grinding them, mixing them with flour and fermenting them in order to make a soy paste. The soy paste is soaked in salt water and sun-dried for several weeks, furthering the fermentation process, until the color of the paste has turned yellow-reddish. Good tauco has a distinct aroma. The sauce is also commonly used in other

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s traditions, such as

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and

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. Taucu is generally used in cooking by Chinese

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and Bruneian. The sauce is often used as condiment and flavouring for stir fried dishes such as ''tahu tauco'' (

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in tauco sauce), ''kakap tahu tausi'' (

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with tofu in soybean sauce), in soup such as '' swikee oh'' (

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in tauco soup) and ''pie oh'' (

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in tauco soup), or stir fried with ''kangkung'' (water spinach). Today the major production centre of tauco in Indonesia is in

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, and

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. While in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, the main commercial brands of taucu is

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(Yeo's).

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