Phan Thiết Fish Sauce

This Vietnamese fish sauce originates from Phan Thiết, a place famous for fish sauce production. The sauce is made from fermented salted anchovies. They're placed into high, cylindrical-shaped wooden crated and left to ferment. The flavor is savory, earthy, full of umami, complex, and rich.

At first it tastes salty, but there's also a sweet aftertaste. The sauce is graded by color – the darkest ones are from the first extraction of the liquid, while the other ones come from subsequent extractions with the addition of water, and those ones are usually used for cooking.