It tastes exactly like the miso I eat at resturants. But I don't see what they are making it out of so thats why I've never seen it in anything but a packet.

And I'd say out of the many Japanese resturants I have eaten at that there is only one that is ran by actual Japanese people. And I know this because Lauren speaks Japanese and can tell whether the people speaking to each other are Korean or Japanese.

This one time she told this guy sitting near us that she speaks Japanese and than the guy asked the waitress if she did and in an embarassed look said "no."