A Brazilian man took home the gold prize, while an Indonesian man and a Filipino woman received the silver prizes in a soy sauce cooking contest, in which foreign participants presented 58 dishes made with soy sauce, at a Tokyo hotel on Sept. 29, two days before Soy Sauce Day.
The contest was among the events organized by the Japan Soy Sauce Association to commemorate Soy Sauce Day. Oct. 1 was chosen to be the day, as the old kanji character for October shares common components with the character for soy sauce.
Herculano Rotondano, a Brazilian man living in Aichi Prefecture, took the top prize for his dish of beef steak with coffee sauce and cassava puree, in the ninth Soy Sauce Recipe & Story Contest.