What is fish sauce?
Fish sauce
Southeast Asian sauce of fermented anchovies and salt, the salty backbone of Thai and Vietnamese cooking.
What it tastes like
Smells strong in the bottle, but in food it just tastes deeply salty and savory.
Where you’ll see it
In nuoc cham, Thai salads, curries, stir-fries and wing glazes; called nam pla in Thai and nước mắm in Vietnamese.