fish sauce
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The Difference Between Fish Sauce and Oyster Sauce (and How to Use Them)
Here’s a breakdown of what they are, and how you can use them.
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9 Unexpected Things You Should Season With MSG
Monosodium glutamate is a crystallised flavour enhancer that makes pretty much any savoury food taste good. You can put it in almost any sauce, soup, stew, or dressing, and it will make it just a little bit better. We’ve already discussed MSG’s more obvious applications, but that was years ago, and I’ve discovered a few…
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Three Ways To ‘Lie Age’ Your Steak
Some things, like love or a delicious prawn base, can’t be hurried, but a lot of things can be approximated. Though there is no substitute for a true dry-aged steak, there are two ingredients that food geeks swear help you get pretty close: koji and fish sauce.
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Four Umami Bombs You Should Always Have Stocked In Your Kitchen
3“Umami”, also known as “the fifth taste”, is a flavour that is kind of hard to describe. It’s savoury, but not salty, though it is usually accompanied by salt. It’s been described as “meaty”, “mushroom-y” and “brothy”, but I prefer to describe it as “that flavour that makes you eat an entire bag of Doritos…