Best Soy Sauce and favorite Furikake

[jsteinhauer]

I'm our of soy sauce. I'm sort of a snob, and I can't get good soy sauce or tamari locally, so I will have to order. I don't care for Eden brand tamari. The other common grocery store tamari (I can't recall the name) is okay, but overpriced. I do like extra fancy Kikkoman soy sauce, but that is not found here, since our Asian grocery closed a few months ago. The flavor enhanced (with MSG) is a bit weird. I prefer tamari, but also like soy sauces with little enough wheat so that they are not bitter (like regular Kikkoman). What do you aficionados recommend.

As an aside, what's your favorite furikake? I don't know the names, but I can only describe what's in them and what they look like. I like the brown granular variety made from sardines (hard to find) that has some nori flakes in it best, and the beefstake leaf mixed with salt (also hard to find) is great. Otherwise, the variety with sweet bonito (easy to find) is also good. I don't care for the tamago (egg) or salmon (pink granules) as much. Some less common varieties also have wasabi granules, which are good.

Years ago, when I lived in St. Louis, there was a small but outstanding Asian grocery on Grand Ave., south of SLU that had EVERYTHING. I tried everything I could, even coccoons. There was a good store in Birmingham, AL that had fresh Vietnamese french rolls and spring rolls and fish, but they got it from Atlanta. In Houston, you could find everything you needed, of course, but it took multiple stops. Even those huge Asian groceries did not have everything I wanted, as the little store in St. Louis did.