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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lalato" data-source="post: 984025" data-attributes="member: 9171">I live down the street from a section of town affectionately called Little Saigon because there are several Viet and Thai restaurants and groceries in the area.  (which is really strange for a place like Orlando, FL).  I remember the first time I encountered fish sauce.  We had ordered various rice vermicelli dishes and each of us were given a saucer of fish sauce.  I wasn't quite sure what to do with it, but I was game to try Viet cuisine so I tasted it and thought it was good.  About 5 minutes into eating I started to notice the tell tale smell of a SBD (silent but deadly... as in fart).  I thought nothing of it, but the smell persisted.  Finally, I couldn't take it anymore and I asked, "OK... who farted?"  Everyone replied with looks of confused innocence.  So then I let my nose do the investigating and it lead me straight to the saucer of fish sauce.  From that day forth fish sauce was renamed "Butt Juice".  Don't get me wrong... we still use fish sauce, it's quite tasty as others have noted, but man does it pack a strong buttalicious smell.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />--sam</blockquote>