MyFreshDash Online Asian Grocery 

The dried anchovy shelf looks easy until you actually have to buy one bag. Then suddenly everything starts sounding almost the same. Dashi. Jiri. Medium. Stir-fry. Soup stock. Small anchovy. Anchovy kit. And that is usually where people make the wrong buy.

Mirim is one of those bottles people buy because a recipe told them to, then spend the next six months wondering what exactly it is doing there. You splash some into a pan because the ingredient list says so. The food tastes good. But does it taste good because of the mirim, or because garlic, soy sauce, sugar, and sesame oil were already doing the heavy lifting?