Soy sauce is brewed from soybeans and wheat fermented with salt. It is salty and used as a table dip and cooking seasoning. Black soy sauce is denser and less salty than regular soy sauce. It adds a smoky flavor to dishes. Sweet Indonesian soy sauce (kecap manis) is much sweeter and thicker than normal soy sauce. It has palm sugar and cane molasses added. Sweet Chinese soy sauce may be substituted or you can just add dark brown sugar to normal soy, or you can try to find Indonesian kecap manis if you can, because it has a distinctive flavor.
