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  2. Umami - Wikipedia

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    Umami was first scientifically identified in 1908 by Kikunae Ikeda, [30] [31] a professor of the Tokyo Imperial University. He found that glutamate was responsible for the palatability of the broth from kombu seaweed. He noticed that the taste of kombu dashi was distinct from sweet, sour, bitter, and salty and named it umami. [16]

  3. Umai (food) - Wikipedia

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    Umai is a popular traditional native dish of the Melanau people in Sarawak, Malaysia, which is usually eaten by fishermen. Umai is a dish of sliced raw fish with a mixture of onions, chillies, vinegar, salt and lime juice.

  4. Soy sauce - Wikipedia

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    Malays from Malaysia, using the Malay dialect similar to Indonesian, use the word kicap for soy sauce. Kicap is traditionally of two types: kicap lemak (lit "fat/rich soy sauce") and kicap cair. Kicap lemak is similar to Indonesian kecap manis but with very much less sugar, while kicap cair is the Malaysian equivalent of kecap asin.

  5. Dried shrimp - Wikipedia

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    Dried shrimp is a staple ingredient in the cuisine of Malaysia, with it being a base to rempah, a spice paste that forms the body of many Malay curries. In Indonesia dried shrimp is called ebi - the name was derived from either Chinese Hokkian dialects where "hebi" means "dried small shrimp", or the Japanese word "ebi", which means "shrimp ...

  6. Food - Wikipedia

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    Bahasa Melayu; Minangkabau; ... Umami, commonly described as savory, is a marker of proteins and characteristic of broths and cooked meats. [74]

  7. Kombu - Wikipedia

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    Umami, a basic taste, was first scientifically identified in 1908 by Kikunae Ikeda through his experimentation with kombu. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] He found that glutamic acid was responsible for the palatability of the dashi broth created from kombu , and was a distinct sensation from sweet, sour, bitter, and salty tastes. [ 16 ]

  8. Garum - Wikipedia

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    Bahasa Indonesia; Italiano; ... Like modern fermented fish sauce and soy sauce, garum was a rich source of umami flavoring due to the presence of glutamates. [7]

  9. Fujian cuisine - Wikipedia

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    Fujian cuisine is known to be light but flavourful, soft, and tender, with particular emphasis on umami taste, known in Chinese cooking as xianwei (鲜味; 鮮味; xiān wèi; sian bī), as well as retaining the original flavour of the main ingredients instead of masking them. [1] [2]