A manager inspects soy sauce production at a site of Shanghai Qianwanlong Condiment Co, a well-known soy sauce maker, Wednesday. The company has been asked to suspend production of soy sauce since last May. The soy sauce retail market in China amounted to some 26.1 billion yuan ($4.1 billion) in 2010, with the annual production volume hitting 5 million tons a year, according to the only data available from Euromonitor International. Photo: IC