fish sauce

[ fish saws ]

noun

1. a spicy sauce made from the fermented liquid of salt-cured fish, especially anchovies, popular as a flavoring or condiment in East and Southeast Asian cuisine.

Example Sentences

My first taste of his restaurant was gyeran jjim, a silken steamed egg custard fragrant with sesame oil and finished with bird’s eye chiles, fish sauce and lime juice — a very Thai touch.

From Washington Post

Try fish sauce, Worcestershire sauce or coconut aminos for salty umami.

From Washington Post

Blutstein also suggests fish sauce, which is shelf-stable and adds an incomparable depth of flavor.

From Outside Online

Stir, wait a few minutes and taste again, adding more fish sauce and sugar, if needed.

From Washington Post

In the same bowl you used for the radish, whisk together the gochugaru, fish sauce, sugar, garlic and ginger until smooth.

From Washington Post

I opted to use fresh cherry tomatoes and fish sauce instead of Clamato or tomato juice, to give it a fresher Thai flavor.

From The Daily Beast

An inch of Lyons sausage, saved from the ark; the remains of a bottle of fish sauce, and a pot of currant jelly.

From Project Gutenberg

But Newman had no thoughts for fish-sauce; he felt thoroughly discontented.

From Project Gutenberg

A piece of fish, a potato, and a little fish sauce, are placed on each plate.

From Project Gutenberg

As for Dutchman, everybody knows he's not a flyer, and only a man whose brains are made of fish-sauce could recommend him.

From Project Gutenberg

Let me stay to dinner, Henry and all, and Ill make your fish-sauce.

From Project Gutenberg