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Dear Clarissa

Clarissa Wei

Writer and co-founder of HEYDOH, a single-origin soy sauce brand.

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Running a soy sauce company from across the world

Here’s the thing: it is incredibly disorienting running an American soy sauce company from across the world. My body and home and family are in Taiwan, but for the past year and half, my attention has been fixated entirely towards the State...

19 days ago
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Join Me On A Food Writing Retreat in Rural Japan

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Last fall, the author and writer Hannah Kirshner and I teamed up to host our first ever food writing retreat in the countryside of Japan, where Hannah resides for most of the year and has written...

2 months ago
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An ode to postpartum confinement cuisine

Hi all. I’m writing in with a couple of really big life updates:

I wrote a cookbook about postpartum recovery, rooted in the Chinese diasporic tradition of “sitting the month,” or zuò yuè zǐ 坐月子. It’s an ancient initiation into motherhood...

2 months ago
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Designing a soy sauce brand

This is part of my ongoing series documenting how I’m building HEYDOH, the single-origin soy sauce company that I co-founded in the fall of 2025.
Previous posts: How we built a soy sauce company (Part 1) and (Part 2)


I knew goin...

3 months ago
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How we built a soy sauce company

This is the second installment in my series documenting my very, very nascent journey of starting a CPG (consumer packaged goods) business. You can read Part 1 here.


Transitioning from writing to business was a deep learning curve,...

7 months ago
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