Vietnamese Dipping Sauce

Thai fish sauce (nam pla) is made by fermenting salted fish for weeks, giving it a pungent aroma somewhere between musky-sexy and putrid-rotten. How you perceive it depends on who you are and your mood of the moment. Many people are repulsed by their first whiff and then warm up to its charms after a taste or two. This dipping sauce rounds out the pungency of fish sauce with lime juice, vinegar, and the sweetness of freshly grated carrot. It is delicious with grilled seafood and make