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Fermented shrimp paste - Fish - Fish sauce


1.      Fermented shrimp paste ( mắm tôm )
Not everyone can stand the shrimp paste smell, but we can’t deny that shrimp paste is a spice and an important sauce. In the North of Vietnam, soft rice noodles eaten with fried tofu, shrimp paste and elsholtzia are among the favourite
2.       Fish ( cá )
Because Vietnam has long seashores and a thick system of rivers and streams, there are a lot of fish, both salt – water fish and fresh – water fish and aquatic products is increasing, fish is rather cheap. In Vietnam, we can buy fresh fish (still alive) everywhere. The dishes made from fish are diverse
3.       Fish sauce ( nước mắm )
Fish sauce is an important raw material in Vietnamese dishes. People use fish sauce to marinate, flavour the dishes and mix to make many other sauces with different tastes (fish sauce with garlic and chilli, fish sauce with ginger, fish sauce with tamarind, etc).  Because fish sauce has a special smell and a few Europeans and Americans can’t taste it, odorless fish sauce has been manufactured. Fish sauce is sold in all Asian food stores.

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