Angkor House 8--Cambodia Digerati "fish sauce"

Angkor House 8--Cambodia Digerati "fish sauce"

In Cambodia, often you can hear and see a foul smell, especially at lunch time, such as by their own taste of smell.

If you eat the food in Cambodia, and the taste of intimate contact. I often feel strange, do I smell in question appears later came to Cambodia?

Occasionally with friends, referred to this question, my friend Robert for helping me put their concerns; that my sense of smell is not a problem, but rather the Cambodians liked food, always present in our lives.

A friend told me, in Cambodia, this food's name is "fish sauce", similar to our domestic cooking with sesame oil, very precious. Cambodian people do each meal will make cooking heat of an iron, and then drop a drop of "fish sauce" to qiangguo, this time a very special odor will lose out. Then, they started cooking or fried rice. When we go to Siem Reap Big gears eat fried rice or noodles, there will be "the taste of fish sauce". I asked friends "fish sauce" is what they do, my friend told me: "fish sauce" is a lot of fresh fish stack together and make them natural decay. Then these rotten fish hanging on a height, these rotten fish will have oil drop down, the oil is "fish sauce." I have worked in the supermarket to see a lot of rotten fish section of stockpiled in plastic pail, those rotten fish there are many shell maggots pupa, very sick.

To Cambodia Tourism friend, when you eat food, if you smell a bit smelly odor in a meal, it must be "a fish sauce".