If there's a fish sauce contest...
“The nuoc mam from Phu Quoc Island was the best of all, clear and with an astonishingly subtle taste. . .But the sauce in this restaurant is from the Philippines, very bad, not from Thailand, which at least is a pale second-best.” - from Love by Robert Olen Butler
(If you're a Filipino, look away quick, because I agree. I'm partial to Phu Quoc nuoc mam.)
When I went to Phan Tiet, the Vietnamese driver said that the nuoc mam from Phan Tiet is also good. I wouldn't know though since I didn't want to open the car to buy one while we were passing the nuoc mam area. It would have been tantamount to going inside a gas chamber. Or self-mutilation.
2 comments:
I love fish sauce. Sometimes I can't decide whether I should use soy sauce (a Japanese thing) or fish sauce to put on my meals :-)
sorry for not responding promptly kevin, since i cook (awesomeness!) i love them both, different recipes for each, but for sauce we (and i mean filipinos all-encompassing i like generalizing!) prefer soy sauce. waiters know it.
amadbrownwoman
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