Dipping Fish Sauce

Name: Dipping Fish Sauce (Nước Mắm Chấm)
Yield: Makes 250 ml (9 fl oz/1 cup)
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons rice vinegar; 2 tablespoons sugar; 3 tablespoons fish sauce; 2 garlic cloves; 1 bird’s eye chilli; 2 tablespoons lime juice

Nước Mắm Chấm

Preparation info

Makes
250 ml

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Secrets of the Red Lantern

By Pauline Nguyen , Luke Nguyen and Mark Jensen

Published 2007

About

Luke Nguyen: Fish sauce is rated the number one cooking ingredient in Vietnamese cooking. When I was growing up, and I was sent to the markets by my elders to buy fish sauce, it always had to be the best brand. Mum insisted that the ‘3 Crab’ brand was the finest. Its clear, amber-coloured liquid was by far the most superior. There is always a bottle on our dining table — it never lives in the pantry.

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