In most grocery stores or ethnic markets, you'll find three primary types of miso: white (shiro), yellow (shinshu), and red ...

Takahiro Terada, head chef at Tsuta, a ramen restaurant in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Sweet white miso (usually sold as shiro ... Korean grocers will sell a spicy type of bean paste called kochu jang (or gochujang), which is flavoured with red chilli and is great for giving a ...