PHU QUOC FISH SAUCE

Phu Quoc is one of the two best places for producing fish sauce in Vietnam. It is the result of hundreds of years of recast.

There is a very common spice, very rustic but close, familiar to indispensable in everyday life, in the culinary delights of the Vietnamese people. It is the taste of the homeland. Nostalgia of people far from home. That spice is fish sauce. And when talking about fish sauce, people’s mouth is always Phu Quoc fish sauce. Type famous fish sauce in the world.

Phu Quoc fish sauce is famous for its high protein level (40 – 45 degrees), which has a tender, sweet and charming flavor, and has a special smell of anchovy striped, which is unique to Phu Quoc. Fish sauce here for as long as delicious.

Phu Quoc currently has more than 100 facilities producing fish sauce, estimated at over 10 million liters of fish sauce / year. Duong Dong and An Thoi are the two places that produce the most fish sauce in the island. There are families who specialize in hereditary fish sauce and keep their reputation from generation to generation.

Here, the fish sauce production facilities are not called granary but only as Phu Quoc barrel houses.

Pure fish sauce is dark brown and transparent. This type is in cold weather when fishermen or divers before diving into the sea will drink a cup warm enough in the afternoon, drink too much and also get drunk

Phu Quoc fish sauce in recent years often competes with Chinese traders (Chinese seafood buying ships focus on buying anchovy materials to make fish sauce from fishermen at very high prices.) Therefore, the price of fish sauce In recent years, Phu Quoc in particular and the country in general tend to increase sharply.