05-31-2007, 09:43 AM
This thread has made me laugh out loud !!
I grew up with both worcester sauce ( British heritage ) and Nam pla - I would suggest that the latter is as close to Garum as one could get ready-made.
I would suggest treating it as a condiment/ ingredient, rather than a sauce. It is used all over S.E. Asia, mainly as an ingredient in cooking -- it adds a great flavour, and is never"fishy" or unpleasant, and many recipes from Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Phillipines etc include it in various forms and guises. It is also used, suitably mixed/diluted as a dipping sauce.
Robert, if you have ever eaten rijstafel or at an Indonesian restaurant, you have eaten Fish Sauce !!
I grew up with both worcester sauce ( British heritage ) and Nam pla - I would suggest that the latter is as close to Garum as one could get ready-made.
I would suggest treating it as a condiment/ ingredient, rather than a sauce. It is used all over S.E. Asia, mainly as an ingredient in cooking -- it adds a great flavour, and is never"fishy" or unpleasant, and many recipes from Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Phillipines etc include it in various forms and guises. It is also used, suitably mixed/diluted as a dipping sauce.
Robert, if you have ever eaten rijstafel or at an Indonesian restaurant, you have eaten Fish Sauce !!
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
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