Premium Oyster Sauce from Yu Kee in Lau Fau Shan

Premium Oyster sauce manufactured by a family-running oyster factory, more than 50 years history, in Lau Fau Shan, Hong Kong

What is the difference between Lau Fau Shan Premium oyster saunce and normal oyster sauce

Here's an article about the brand:

"Yu Kee was founded in the 1960s by a man surnamed Chan, who bred oysters in the Shajing district of Guangdong. He then moved to Hong Kong, picking Lau Fau Shan to continue his oyster breeding business because the area is where fresh and saltwater meet, and oysters naturally thrive in estuarine bodies of brackish water.

Yu Kee Oyster Sauce has a thinner consistency than brands such as Lee Kum Kee or Amoy, but nevertheless has an umami flavour and a hint of the ocean. Supposedly each batch is the product of over 200 oysters boiled down and extracted for the maximum in taste.

The brand has also split their oyster sauces into three gradings sold at different price points; these are differentiated by their bottle caps. The yellow-capped bottles are the cheapest, with the red-capped as a mid-priced product that is most readily available. They both contain thickeners, colourings, MSG, and additives. The gold-capped bottles are Yu Kee’s premium products, containing only oyster sauce, water, and salt—in other words, the purest and most traditional offering."

Oyster Farming in lau Fau Shan

Culture of oyster has been practised along the intertidal mud flat of Deep Bay in northwestern corner of Hong Kong for at least 200 years.

Traditionally, oysters are cultured by the bottom culture method with spat collected by laying rock, concrete tile or post as cultch on the mud flat in May or June. The oyster spat takes four to five years to grow to marketable size. In recent years, some farmers turned to fattening of medium size oysters imported from the Mainland. Majority of them adopt the raft culture method, i.e. oysters placed in baskets suspended from rafts.

Read more about Lau Fau Shan Oyster History.

Ingredient: oyster Extractive, water, salt(preservative-free)
Net Content: 500g