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What is Japanese mayo?
Unlike its American counterpart, Japanese mayo is made using just egg yolks, compared to the entire egg. Add a splash of rice vinegar and a hit of umami flavor, and you end up with one of the most craveable condiments on the planet. Kewpie is the original and best-known producer of Japanese mayo.
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Why chefs are reaching for Japanese mayo (and you should be, too)
Chicago chef Mari Katsumura jokes that, as a Japanese-American, she keeps a pretty heavy stockpile of Kewpie mayo in her home kitchen. If she runs out? Oh, my mom always has like five backup bottles, so I can just run and grab one from her house.