Fish Sauce
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(Pronounce in Mandarin Pinyin: Yu Lu)  |
| Fish sauce is a salty liquid used as a condiment
and flovouring. The liquid is clear, amber
to dark brown in colour, and is used like
soy sauce. In Veitnam, fish sauce is served
with most meals as a dipping sauce, where
it may be flavoured with chilies, peants or
sugar. Fish sauce is made from salted and
fermented dried fish or shrimp, which are
layered into large wooden barrels and allowed
to ferment. After about 3 months or so, the
liquid is drained off to produce a sauce of
high quality, normally reserved for table
use. Subsequent draining yield a fish sauce
of lower quality, generally used for cooking.
Some bottles of fish sauce, especially those
from China and Hong Kong, may be labeled as
"fish gravy . |
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