"Victor Sack" > wrote in message
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> piedmont > wrote:
>
>> Don't laugh, I just bought a bottle of imported Vietnamese fish sauce
>> and it scares me! Should it be a little bit chunky, pours ok but after
>> I opened it already I put my finger over the top a shook it up, it
>> seemed to blow out just a tiny bit.
>>
>> Here is the writing on the bottle, Que Huong, Bun Mam Da Nang, Mam
>> Nem Pha San, Huong Vi dac Trung, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
>>
>> Fish sauce smells already so how could you tell if its went bad?
>
> Is this what you have?
> <http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/yhst-28388686789217_2114_82194579>.
> At least one Web site suggests that there is also a green version.
>
> Let's try to translate the label...
>
> Que Huong, literally "Homeland", is the brand.
>
> Bun Mam Da Nong is apparently a version of a noodle soup, named in this
> case after the city of Da Nong. I do not know why this appears on the
> label. Perhaps it is the dish that is supposed to be flavoured with the
> sauce.
>
> Mam Nem Pha San is the name of the dipping or flavouring sauce, premixed
> in this case, according to at least one Web site. It is based on fish
> sauce. The modifier "pha san" is unclear to me. "Pha" means "mix", I
> gather.
>
> Huong Vi dac Trung means "special flavour".
>
> "Ho Chi Minh City" means Saigon.
>
> Victor

That's it.
Michael