The Japanese dinner table features soybeans in many different forms. Since ancient times, a great variety of traditional dishes have featured low-calorie, healthy soy. Today, soy is also used in many contemporary “imitations” to replicate the taste, appearance, and texture of other foods.
Soymilk Yoghurt
This yoghurt is made from soymilk fermented with the plant-derived lactic acid bacteria discovered in sunki-zuke, a simple no-salt pick-led red turnip.
Natto
Natto is a fermented health food made by inoculating cooked soybeans with bacillus subtilis natto Known for its strong aroma and sticky sliminess, natto is a classic Japanese breakfast dish.
Soy Patty
Vegetable burger patties made from plant-based proteins derived from soybeans are sandwiched between two hamburger buns. Shiitake mushroom extract is added to the patties to soften the distinctive soy flavor.
Tofu
Tofu is set in a firm block by adding a coagulant like nigari to the liquid squeezed from boiled soy-beans (soy milk). The simplest way to enjoy it is as hiyayakko, topped with just a few garnishes and soy sauce (see photo) or served warm with kombu kelp broth.
Yuba
Yuba is the thin film that is skimmed off the surface of boiled soymilk. It can be eaten fresh with wasabi and soy sauce or dried for longer storage.
Soy Kalbi
This soy-based meat substitute tastes and looks like kalbi barbequed short ribs, but with about an eighth of the fat content of regular ribs.
Edamame
Young, green soybeans harvested in summer be-fore they mature are called edamame. They are simply boiled in salted water. Aromatic, tasty, and healthy, these are an undeniably popular snack to pair with an alcoholic beverage.
Kinako
Kinako is roasted soybean flour to which sugar is added. It is used in sweets. Sticky rice cakes topped with sweet soybean flour, kinako-mochi, are one of the most popular flavors of mochi.
Soy Noodles
Noodles made with 50% soybeans contain less than 40% of the carbohydrates and more than three times the protein than regular wheat flour noodles. They can be used for both pasta and ramen dishes.
Aburaage
These pouches of thinly sliced, deep-fried tofu are often simmered in a salty sweet broth of soy sauce, sake, and sugar, and filled with vinegared rice to make inarizushi (pictured).
Cheese-Style Tofu
This healthy cheese-like product is 100% soymilk. It not only has the same texture and feel as cheese, but also melts in the same way when heated.
Soybean Rice
This processed soybean food is made to look just like rice. It is delicious as is and can be used to make fried rice, as well.
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Intertrade Distributors Private Limited (ITD) was formed in 1963, by its founder chairman, Mr. Mohammad Abdul Quadeem, with the vision to serve the industry of Pakistan. Mr. Quadeem was also the first President of Pakistan Merchants Association which later became the Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry. ITD since then, has grown and evolved into a world class, end to end solution provider, to the industry in Pakistan, engaged in supply and support of solutions and services for material handling applications, high performance lubricants, industrial tires, industrial batteries, personnel lifting solutions, compressed air systems and high-tech machine tools and associated spare parts for the complete range of equipment handled by the company.
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All equipment sold by ITD are supported by comprehensive after sales service and spare parts support throughout the service life, across Pakistan.
With offices and warehouses in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Multan, and Faisalabad, ITD is ideally located to provide their full complement of solutions and expertise to the industry, across Pakistan.
ITD is committed to provide a very high level of service to its customers across Pakistan. Principal trained engineers, proprietary diagnostic tooling, and spare parts from stock, assure that your equipment will not stand idle for want of service or spare parts, any time anywhere, in Pakistan.
In the field of material handling solutions, ITD is acknowledged as an industry leader and the ‘go to’ people for material handling solutions in Pakistan. Our company pioneered the concept of ‘pallet less’ handling of cotton bales in the textile industry. The TCM ‘Cotton Handler’, has saved the textile industry millions in reduced bale damage and significantly improved productivity of operations at their facilities. We pioneered and introduced the concept of multiple pallet handling in the beverage industry changing the way beverage industry in Pakistan, handles pallets, reducing product loss on account of breakage and improving safety of operations. Our Very Narrow Aisle (VNA) forklift trucks have allowed our customers to turn warehouses into profit centers by ‘unlocking’ up to 40% storage from existing facilities.
ITD is also the authorized distributor and stockists of world famous Petro Canada high performance lubricants and specialty fluids in Pakistan. ITD has successfully introduced and inducted extended drain interval high performance lubricants and greases, which has proven to be a game changer for industries, allowing them to work harder, longer, for less, making their operations more profitable, efficient and resilient. With the Petro Canada performance break through products, customers are exceeding established standards of performance and substantially bringing down the cost of doing business.
ITD continues to grow, to improve, and to innovate. Partnering with ITD, you are assured of peace of mind that your investment in product and service solutions delivered by us, will remain safe and productive for many, many years.
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