Dashi is a soup or cooking stock considered fundamental to Japanese cooking. Our Instant Red Dashi is fish based, made with kombu, shitake and bonito fish and can be used to enhance the flavour of soups, stews and cooked vegetables. Dashi adds a unique flavour to the soup and the use of kombu, a Japanese vegetable, adds a subtle flavour to the soup that is neither salty, sweet, sour or bitter. Freeze dried instant soup is convenient and easy-to-drink, just add boiling water.