And do not pass on the dried salty minnows that you crumble over the rice and veggies!
Most of today's 'brown' steak sauce is made with fish sauce, notice the anchovies on the ingredients list.
And tamarind
Me too. they've started to look at me funny in the Vietnamese restaurant when I order my noodles on the side and dowse them in uncut nước mắm. "That's not Vietnamese!" exclaims the cook. "Too much salt," she says. I tell her I like it Thai style. We keep two different kinds in stock at home. I like the Thai chiles in fish sauce too, especially for breakfast atop my omelet, my savory oatmeal, or atop chilaquiles with the nopalitos. I'm gaining weight just thinking about it.
With the Roman practice of putting pine tree in everything, I have to wonder whether the tapeworms were truly spread that way.
Oh heck yeah!