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In Pictures: Soya sauce made the traditional way
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Jun 12, 2017, 10:44 AM
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A worker transfers soaked beans to a steaming tank for steaming.
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Soya beans that have undergone hours of steaming being transferred to baskets for cooling down before they are coated by hand with wheat flour and a fermenting agent.
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Soya beans that have undergone hours of steaming being transferred to baskets for cooling down before they are coated by hand with wheat flour and a fermenting agent.
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Boss of the soya sauce factory, Simon Woo (left), 52, and a worker coating a mixture of wheat flour and a fermenting agent on millions of pre-steamed and cooled soya beans.
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Director of Kwong Woh Hing, Simon Woo (bottom, left), Simon's sister, Hannah Woo (third from left) and their workers placing coated soya beans onto trays.
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Beans coated with wheat flour and a fermenting agent in a room for the first stage of fermentation.
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After four to seven days of fermenting in an enclosed room, the beans are scraped into baskets to be transferred to the vats and containers waiting in the courtyard.
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The soya beans after the first stage of fermentation.
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Simon's sister, Hannah Woo (third from left), 65, and workers spread a piece of canvas sheet over the vats when a light drizzle threatens to slow down the process of transferring beans to the vats.
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A worker pours fermented beans into the vats for a second round of fermentation that will last one year for light soya sauce, and one-and-a-half year for dark soya sauce.
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A worker pours fermented soya beans into a container for the fermentation of soya sauce under the sun.
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Brine, made from sea salt, fills up the vats and containers for a second stage of fermentation under the elements.
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Hannah Woo (left) passes a worker a hat.
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Hannah Woo pressing down on a vat of soya beans to make sure that each bean gets soaked in brine.
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Vats, dating from Woo Hoh's era, and containers containing fermenting soya beans, sitting in the courtyard of the Woo's factory in Defu Industrial Park.
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Simon tries out sauce recipes in the factory's kitchen.
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Darren Woo, 22, the youngest of Simon's three sons, helping out at the soya sauce factory.
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Hannah Woo filters the company's premium range of soya sauce into bottles while a worker adjusts the amount of soya sauce in each bottle with a syringe.
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A overview of the courtyard used for soya sauce fermentation at Kwong Woh Hing.
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