Smells fishy to me...

In "Brothers by Fire" there was a mention of a sauce called Nuoc Mam. Almost everyone that has been in Southeast Asia has had a taste of it. It was strongly flavored and when properly applied, it make anything taste somewhat like food. Somewhat.

And so after eating it for many weeks, I got to wondering where the stuff came from. As I walked along a road near Sattahip, I watched an old man climb a ladder up to the top of a large barrel. He lifted the lid and poured in a bucked of small silvery fish, still trying to swim.

I asked my friend what that was and he just smiled and said, "Nuoc Mam."

After the fish sits in the tropical sun for a few weeks, the spigot is opened and out comes the  golden liquid that I had been enjoying for so long.

There isn't much more that can or should be said about this subject.

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Ron