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Originally Posted by Octarine
I sometimes go to a restaurant were they serve various dishes with a dipping sauce on the side that they call "fish sauce," but it is completely unlike any other fish sauce I have ever seen. The "fish sauce" is clear, light yellow to orange, salty, sweet, watery, and not at all fishy. The flavor is rather mild and hard to describe. It seems to have zero oil in it, because any oil that comes off of things you dip floats in beads on the top. The waiters say it contains no fish, but cannot describe it further.
The restaurant is Pan-Asian (I can identify a number of Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Thai dishes on the menu), so no hint there as to the sauce's national origin. My cousin says the sauce is similar to something he has seen in Vietnamese restaurants, but in my experience Vietnamese fish sauce is fishy, strongly flavored, and NOT yellow.
What is this sauce? Thank you all.
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If it's japanese, than this is something similar to a sauce i've experienced at a local japanese restaurant. Here's a recipe:
Chiba Sauce Ingredients
1/4 teaspoon Wasabi paste
1 teaspoons Mayonnaise (low fat if preffered)
3 teaspoons Soy sauce
1 teaspoon sugar (if desired)
3 teaspoons Cream (lactose free light cream is my preference)
Instructions for Chiba Sauce
WARNING: Remember wasabi paste is HOT! Dont be too liberal if you don't know the stuff!
1. Dissolve a very small amount of wasabi (if its from the tube a small blob lesser than 1cm is heaps) thoroughly in 1 teaspoon of the soy sauce in a small bowl.
2. Add 1 teaspoon of mayonnaise & mix thoroughly & continue to add equal parts of mayo, sugar, & soy sauce to suit your taste.