Garum vs Asian fish sauce

[gfweb]

Is there a major difference?

Can I sub one for the other?

[rotuts]

@gfweb 

 

you can get garum ?  these days ?

[gfweb]

1 minute ago, rotuts said:

@gfweb 

 

you can get garum ?  these days ?

 

Amazon sells stuff they call garum.  How authentic, I don't know.

[rotuts]

interesting 

 

pricy stuff .   

 

RB40 : 7 bucks @ TJ .  Done 

 

nice 20 dollar bottle of wine while your there 

 

Im guessing you d be a bit ahead of things .

[liuzhou]

No one really knows what garum tasted like exactly and, anyway, there were many different grades at wildly varying prices. That said it is likely to have been similar to Asian fish sauces.

[blue_dolphin]

I have read that Asian fish sauce is an acceptable substitute but to start with a little less in case it’s more fishy. 
I have some Italian anchovy sauce that is indeed milder than either the Red Boat or Three Crabs fish sauce in my pantry but I’m sure you could find examples that are the opposite. 

[BonVivant]

Brought mine back from Sicily. Quite a bit more expensive than any typical Asian fish sauce brand (price-volume). Almost can't tell the difference in taste when tasting it side by side expensive Vietnamese fish sauce from Phu Quoc island*. Both are good, a refined delight.

 

 

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(*Phu Quoc: I stayed there for a week. Only had electricity a couple of hours a day. Spartan room at a beach guesthouse, no news(papers), no other tourists on the beach/nearby except for Scottish pensioner Mitch who lived on a boat in Nottingham, who overwintered in India and also Vietnam that year. We ate together every evening, at the only place behind the guesthouses on the beach, literally an open shack with a palm leaf roof. We talked about everything in the universe. The island and encounter with pensioner Mitch left a lasting impression. I hope when I'm his age I would still be able to travel, have my health, have his perspective on life, kindness and an open mind.

 

The day we returned to Vietnam mainland we heard about the tsunami (!). We were at the beach every day on Phu Quoc! Well, I only buy fish sauce from Phu Quoc ever since. To me it tastes better than all the others.

[ColinDunklin]

On 10/23/2023 at 6:10 AM, BonVivant said:

Brought mine back from Sicily. Quite a bit more expensive than any typical Asian fish sauce brand (price-volume). Almost can't tell the difference in taste when tasting it side by side expensive Vietnamese fish sauce from Phu Quoc island*. Both are good, a refined delight.

 

 

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(*Phu Quoc: I stayed there for a week. Only had electricity a couple of hours a day. Spartan room at a beach guesthouse, no news(papers), no other tourists on the beach/nearby except for Scottish pensioner Mitch who lived on a boat in Nottingham, who overwintered in India and also Vietnam that year. We ate together every evening, at the only place behind the guesthouses on the beach, literally an open shack with a palm leaf roof. We talked about everything in the universe. The island and encounter with pensioner Mitch left a lasting impression. I hope when I'm his age I would still be able to travel, have my health, have his perspective on life, kindness and an open mind.

 

The day we returned to Vietnam mainland we heard about the tsunami (!). We were at the beach every day on Phu Quoc! Well, I only buy fish sauce from Phu Quoc ever since. To me it tastes better than all the others.

It looks yummy. 

 

Edit: I tried it and it is actually very tasty.

Edited November 16, 2023 by ColinDunklin (log)