So I used to buy soybean paste at my regular grocery store, but they stopped carrying it. We decided to go to the big Asian food grocery store and found some there. There were many varieties, from which I chose at random because none of the labels were in English. I'm not sure what I have. It looks and tastes like what I wanted, so there's that. The only thing is that there was a little silver foil packet full of fine black powder sitting on top of the paste. Does anyone know what that is? Do I need it?
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