Thai Village Cuisine

In the Thai cuisine, what is the difference of dark soy from light soy sauce?

Making a stir fry thai noodle recipe.

Public Comments

1. light is lighter, but usually has more salt dark is darker, almost syrupy, less salty, and usually littl more sweet. and are you sure this is a Thai reciepe? Thai use VERY LITTLE soy sauce... they mostly use fish sauce.
2. Soy sauce in Thai noodles? Hmmm.... Interesting. Thai cookery uses very little soy sauce, usually opting for fish sauce instead. The recipe must be sanitized for a non-Thai palate. Dark soy sauce is thicker and is sweeter/maltier than thin/light soy sauce. Dark soy sauce give foods a darker color too.
3. Thai food is heavily influence by Chinese food but they don't really use soy sauce, it's fish sauce. I thought dark soy sauce was aged longer or something. I know it has a much richer taste, I really like it with chinese rice