I’m pretty sure that if I let you sniff some fish sauce, it would be pretty hard to convince you to cook with it. No, the potent, nigh-on acrid scent is not this beloved sauce’s most seductive asset.
And funnily enough, it’s not even its flavor (at least not on its own) that would win you over.
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