Indonesia

There are a million recipes to make fried rice but for Indonesian people, one ingredient must be included when making fried rice, no matter what recipe is being used. That ingredient is sweet soy sauce, a sweetened aromatic palm sugar soy sauce. Although the name says soy sauce, this molasses-like sauce with syrupy consistency may contain up to 50% palm sugar and less soybean. The high sugar content from sweet soy sauce gives Indonesian fried rice it’s unique caramelized flavor.