personaly i don't fink you're a real Viet if u can't stand fish sauce.

If I like bun mam, therefore, I gotta love nuoc mam.

I'm not even Viet and I love it.

-Norm

If you don't love nuoc mam you're not Patriotic... LOL

It's pretty good. Wouldn't say I love it, though

some vietnamese food just gotta have nuoc mam.

Well I'm American and I love it.
My fiancee is from Vietnam. He hates it.
Go figure.
Jenny

LOL that is wierd!

I definately like Fish Sauce and it can almost get addicting. Anything related to seafood is on my plus list. But for fish sauce you either like it or hate it: Alot of western people says it smells like a woman's privates.

thanks for the info tongbao

O... kay... and how would those people know what a woman's private smells like?

-Norm

Bravo for Vince Tongbao ! How about us electing Vince Tongbao to be an honorary Vietnamese? Shall we call him Vincent Ngô Thông Bảo from now on?

Good idea Doan Du

I think it taste alright, but it doesn't smell very good.

I used to like it as a kid, but then....I developed a dislike for it

It's the best ever. Yummy!

now, I like soy sauce I eat it with everything

What's Thông Bảo

It's your name tongbao in Vietnamese, Vince.

That's a nice name, by the way.

Doesn't "tong bao" mean comrade which in Vietnamese is do^`ng ba`o not tho^ng ba?o
Anyway back to topic, fish sauce, no, don't like it, too salty for my taste.

A friend of mine use to pour fish sauce over these people at school that pissed him off. Lol they didn't know wtf it was.

wTF.. haha.. they must of stink for the ages then
anyway i thought everyone liked fish sauce. i couldn't live w/out it.. it goes on everything. even just fish sauce and rice is an ok meal haha

I don't think I would like it if I didn't grow up eating it

too bad i am now a vegetarian. used to love it though

You're not a Vietnamese if you don't like fish sauce. I it.

I guess I'm not Vietnamese then.

er.. that's wrong.. people from where i was from eat fish sauce most of time.. and we not vietnamese

Err so if one doesnt like fish sauce he really aint viet eh?

Does that mean someone who doesnt like Kimchi isnt really Korean?
Doesnt like tomato sauce isnt really Australian?
Doesnt like Soya sauce isnt really Chinese?

i like fish sauce sometimes...i depends on what you put it in...my mom has hella bottles of fish sauce in the cupboard...my brother says the older it is the better flavor? anyways...i hate the way it smells

Fish sauce? It's the clear, oily one you guys are talking about right? I love dipping my spring rolls in that stuff whenever I eat out at a Vietnamese restaurant. Good stuff

And btw, Vietnamese rice noodle with tender beef flanks is da $hit!

i can eat food with nuoc mam but i prefer soy sauce tbh

I love it!!!!

Here is one of the other name for fish sause that my whitenese friend called it. He called it "WET DOG", and he loves it. But the worse of fish sause is "Mam Nem", that is one of the worst kind of wet dog, but it goes good with some of the food too. For fish sause, if you do this, it will go good with any kind of rice or noodle.

1 or 2 chilly peper (thai's pepper) or even more if you like it spicy.
2table spoon of sugar
2 piece of garlic (again, depend on how much you like garlic)
1/8 of lemon (fresh one to get juice)

put sugar, pepper, garlic into a little bowl (smack them real good) add lemom juice in, mix it up good, then add wet dog in, mix them good again, then you will have a tasteful sause can go along with any kind of rice or blank noodle. We Vietnamese uses fish sauce almost on any food, and i love it.

Nuoc Mam

I love it. Last time I met this girl and she smelled like fish sause...

hahhahaha in that case you need to tell her to have you help her with her shower.

I love mam nem mixed with a little pineapple, but I can't stand fish sauce or any other kind of mam. It stinks man.

man, i gotta tell you brotha, no offense but you're a little odd, nuoc mam is ok, man ruot is a little stronger, but mam nem, boy oh boy, with pinnaple with it, uhm uhm uhm, it taste hella good with Bo Nuong Vi, or Nem Nuong or even Salad Rolls, but man, mam nem is strongest smell ever, hella stinks, i gotta brush my fang at least 3 times after eating it.

I like fish sauce... but it stinks so bad..

For some strange reason with many Asian food, the more it stinks the better it taste.

i like fish sauce too
and yeah some things u need to eat it with
like umm the noodle one
hahha
im viet
and yet i dont know
haha

you're right herosword, the more stinker that is, the better that gonna taste, like dry fish, or dry squish, man, cook them up on the charbroil, and eat with rice or drink with beer, yum yum yum

eck..

I dislike stinky foods..

I can still remember the last dry squish I had...god it was perfection. Dip it in Oil and salt or the sauce you eat with pho...ahhh...mouth watering.

Now there's no more sadly. I'll have to wait til someone go back to vietnam to get me some. The stuff you get in the supermarket is no substitute for the real squid dried whole.

darn, you know how to eat brotha, try this one out if you have a chance, use a little fish sause, add a little red pepper, then add a little lemon (fresh one), mix them up, then deep that dry squish in it, you will taste the sweetness out of that squish (whishkey or beer go with it, that tha shiet)..(i personally dont' drink, but i do that for my friends and they loves it.)

Then kill everything in site with your breathe...

RIght after I eat Vietnamese food.. I eat gum or gargle...

in China we have stink Tofu.. people saaid it tasted so good

I like mam nem because of bo nuon vi too. The pinapple kinda canceled out the smell to the point I can tolerate it, but nuoc mam by itself I can't.

Nuoc mam is alright.

I will... You should be professional chef in Vietnamese delights. You got good ideas.