Fish sauce is made from fermented anchovies. Anchovies don't smell too good in the first place; when you leave them to essentially rot for several weeks, their scent can only get worse.
fishmansam
2006-01-16 19:39:26 UTC
Most traditional recipes for it call for small stinky fish with guts intact to be buried in the ground. Does that begin to answer?
TakkaTakka
2006-01-13 20:12:53 UTC
BECAUSE ITS FISH SAUCE. FISH STINK. The ignorance of the common person ceases to amaze me.
☼♥Sweet Qt ♥☼
2006-01-18 10:26:35 UTC
Patis smells so bad but taste so good, you know what else smells bad? bagoong (fermented shrimp)....ewwww
2006-01-17 18:25:21 UTC
Because it tastes so good!
joeebruce2000
2006-01-13 20:11:31 UTC
because its like fishy.
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