Soya no Shio (宗谷の塩)

The story behind it

The Soya Strait, at the northern tip of Japan. This salt comes from a cold, clean sea filled with nutrients carried in by drift ice.

Soya no Shio is made by drawing seawater filtered up from the seabed, concentrating it, and spraying it onto a heated drum so that only the water leaves. Magnesium content is in the 3,300mg range per 100g, among the highest in the country.

Salmon, scallops, potatoes. A salt raised in the same sea as the bounty of the northern land shows its best when paired with Hokkaido ingredients. A pinch of the strength of the farthest sea.