KANESHICHI Natural Dashi Pack. A well-balanced blend of dried bonito, kelp, dried sardines, shiitake mushrooms, and horse mackerel. (30 packs)

Very good base for Miso soups, nice subtle taste but in my opinion stated simmering times bit too short to extract full flavour. 8 to 10 minutes yield better outcome and final dish was excellent. Would recommend

Fantastic dashi mix, super low sodium, great flavour. Add some katsuobushi and a dash of white miso for an authentic flavour profile.

Easy to use, I love the individual sachets, last a long time. However, as it happens with many Japanese products, the excessive amount of packaging may make you feel guilty about all the plastic being used!. Nice flavour, lovely to add into soups and stews even if not cooking Japanese recipes!

good.

Love the flavour. Use it for cooking miso soup. Very tasty.

Would buy again

A great base for a miso soup. You can dry the content after use and add as a sprinkle over ramen noodles or similar. Be aware, this is fish -based, (that is basis of many Japanese soup stocks, using bonito and mackerel).

This was awful - I really hope this is no indicative of how dashi shoud taste - had to throw it

NICE PRODUCT

I have spent forever making my own dashi by soaking kombu for hours, meaning we always had to plan ahead. Figured I'd try this and I am truly surprised at how tasty it is! I soak/boil 2 packets in 5 cups water for about 5-7 minutes, and then leave the packets in until I'm ready to use the dashi or make miso soup. I love this stuff!!

Was able to re-create our local restaurants miso soup with this Dashi pack. The flavor is spot on.

We were trying to make takoyaki without using this since it's rather expensive and not available locally. We'll, never getting it right we decided to bite the bullet. Glad we did. Takoyaki now tastes like it should. Doesn't take much per batch so it goes further than you'd imagine. Definitely a must have.

Other than the fact that there are no instructions on how to use these packets, I would have given it 5 stars: once I searched the internet and found instructions, I found the broth to be tasty and useful in many Non Asian dishes - will be using it often.