Sqwertz wrote:
>
> On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:55:55 -0700, Arri London wrote:
>
> > Ate at a Vietnamese restaurant today; TMU came into a bit of unexpected
> > cash LOL. There was a brownish sauce (no chile) at the table, along with
> > the Huy Fong sriracha and tuong ot toi. Any ideas what that was? In a
> > squeezy bottle.
>
> That was a soybean-based house brown squeezy sauce, of course.
>
> :-)

Har har... :P
The brain first said 'hoisin' but on second taste changed its mind. It
wasn't the other thick soybean-based sauce meant for dipping; it was too
dark for that.

>
> I don't know where you live, but I've never seen nuoc mam on the
> table unless it was really hardcore Vietnamese neighborhood. But I
> have seen it.
>
> -sw

They will bring nuoc mam if asked. Nuoc cham came with the 'egg' rolls.
We have a large Vietnamese population here, so anything is possible.