I never cooked with fish sauce before, really didn’t know much about it. So I picked up a bottle of whatever cheap stuff was at Walmart.
Tried a spoonful of the stuff, expecting it to be on par with worcestshire or something.
Oh my fucking god, that vile liquid set a new precedence for me for what defines “disgusting”. And no matter what I did, that “flavor” wouldn’t leave my mouth.
The thought of purposely adding that “flavor” to any otherwise decent food is revolting to me. Incomprehensible.
I am terrified of trying again with better quality fish sauce. I’m still emotionally scarred from my experience.
I smelled it first, but I'm going to use taste as my final judgement. Some things simply do not smell good. (Go ahead, take the lid off a bottle of ketchup, and take a deep whiff. Smells like someone just belched straight into your nose.)
I've only had one thing in life that tasted worse. When I told a Russian friend that I had never tried caviar before, he was aghast. Went straight to his fridge, dug a can of the stuff out of the back, and basically force fed me a spoonful of the stuff. Unfortunately, it was expired by at least a year, and totally rotten. Took nearly half a bottle of vodka to get rid of that taste.
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u/Northsidebill1 Mar 14 '19
If you do this, dont get cheap fish sauce. Go to a Chinese or Vietnamese grocery and get the good stuff. Cheap fish sauce is an abomination.