Veggie Fish Sauce / was Vegetarian Spring Rolls

[Guest guest]

According to my cooking Thai fish sauce has nothing to do with fish, only that

it contains anchovy extract. When I make fish I don't use fish sauce. Most

people use fish sauce to perk up the flavor of noodle dishes etc. My kids are

meat eaters and love Thai food, but if they read the label and saw anchovy

extract I think they would just die, LOL.

 

I had to carve a roast beef last night for the family. (my mom made it and

brought it over, nice mom) ughhhhh. It was not nice. I am going to hate cooking

for them now. Geez, and the dishes used to be the worst part. Not anymore.

 

Blessings,

Maria/Chanda

PS. I made spinach lasagna the other night, OMG it was good!

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psybermus

Tuesday, December 07, 2004 7:18 AM

Veggie Fish Sauce / was Vegetarian Spring Rolls

 

 

 

>We have a vegetarian asian market here in Oz where

they >>sell vegetarian fish sauce. They have a website

here -

http://members.iinet.net.au/~yongcorp - if you email

them and ask what the brand is you might be able to

find it in your country.

 

Yes, thank you - I'll try that. I used to be able to

get veggie oyster sauce in Oz - but I didn't see the

Thai fish sauce so just didn't use it. I shall be

going to what passes for China Town (we live in

Montreal now) this week so you never know I might be

luckier this time ;=) It doesn't really matter, of

course. I don't like the taste of f*sh anymore anyway,

but some do and it would be nice to have the option of

serving a more 'authentic' dish to others.

 

Best to you out there in - sunny Perth?

 

Pat ;=)

 

 

[Guest guest]

LOL, I am sorry, that didn't come out right.

I meant that fish sauce really isn't like a sauce that is meant to cover fish,

like hollandaise sauce or white sauce. I meant it was made of fish but

necessarily meant to go on fish.

 

Blessings,

Chanda/Maria

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Gary Mattingly

Tuesday, December 07, 2004 9:56 AM

Re:Veggie Fish Sauce / was Vegetarian Spring

Rolls

 

 

At 05:03 AM 12/6/2004, you wrote:

 

>According to my cooking Thai fish sauce has nothing to do with fish, only

>that it contains anchovy extract. When I make fish I don't use fish sauce.

 

Anchovies are fish, thus Thai fish sauce does, IMHO, have something to

do with fish. Possibly I do not understand your statement.

 

Gary

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

>We have a vegetarian asian market here in Oz where

they >>sell vegetarian fish sauce. They have a website

here -

http://members.iinet.net.au/~yongcorp - if you email

them and ask what the brand is you might be able to

find it in your country.

 

Yes, thank you - I'll try that. I used to be able to

get veggie oyster sauce in Oz - but I didn't see the

Thai fish sauce so just didn't use it. I shall be

going to what passes for China Town (we live in

Montreal now) this week so you never know I might be

luckier this time ;=) It doesn't really matter, of

course. I don't like the taste of f*sh anymore anyway,

but some do and it would be nice to have the option of

serving a more 'authentic' dish to others.

 

Best to you out there in - sunny Perth?

 

Pat ;=)

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

At 05:03 AM 12/6/2004, you wrote:

 

>According to my cooking Thai fish sauce has nothing to do with fish, only

>that it contains anchovy extract. When I make fish I don't use fish sauce.

 

Anchovies are fish, thus Thai fish sauce does, IMHO, have something to

do with fish. Possibly I do not understand your statement.

 

Gary

[Guest guest]

hi maria/chanda,

 

fish sauce has everything to do with fish because it

is made from fish (anchovies are fish).

 

to make fish sauce, fish are salted and fermented for

many months until they completely break down. the

remaining sludgey goo is strained and the resulting

liquid is fish sauce.

some brands sold in america are not made this way (for

example 3 crabs brand) but they all have fish (anchovy

extract) in them to some degree; therefore, they are

not vegetarian. furthermore, any dish that contains

fish sauce is not truly vegetarian.

 

hope this info is helpful,

susie

 

--- Maria/Chanda <puterwitch wrote:

 

> According to my cooking Thai fish sauce has nothing

> to do with fish, only that it contains anchovy

> extract. When I make fish I don't use fish sauce.

> Most people use fish sauce to perk up the flavor of

> noodle dishes etc. My kids are meat eaters and love

> Thai food, but if they read the label and saw

> anchovy extract I think they would just die, LOL.

> Blessings,

> Maria/Chanda

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Greetings back ;=)

 

My dh and I first started going to Thailand before we

were veggie, back in the '70s, then in the '80s when

we were at the pescatarian or pescatarian-in-a-pinch

stage ('in a pinch' meaning don't make a fuss when

travelling if they don't understand English too well).

By the '90s our travels were confined to Bangkok for

various reasons and, by choosing carefully, we were

able to get vegetarian food - stir-fries being the

safest, specially created for us - 'no meat, no fish,

no fish sauce'. I asked a monk of our aquaintance

about this, but he just said he was vegetarian and

begged his food (we knew, we knew - that's how we met

him - he picked us up at one of the temples! ;=))

Maybe he blinked sometimes.

 

Frankly, I found that travelling almost always

requires some blinking of ones vegetarianism if one is

travelling in the tropics, because water is unsafe and

therefore salads are unsafe - and peeled fruit

extremely unwise. That leaves steamed rice (cuz rarely

tampered with) and stir-fried veggies, which may or

may not have been in contact with meat :=(

 

And this is no help whatsoever, is it? I'm sorry :=(

Enjoy Chiang Mai - we never got there but understand

it's enchanting.

 

Best, Pat ;=)

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Greetings Pat...

 

Given that Thailand is someone where I have wanted to

go for quite a

while now, and hopefully will in the near future, can

you tell me how you

went in regards to vegetarian food? I am hoping to go

a little further

North around the Chang Mai region...

 

 

 

 

 

 

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