Re: Small fish for fish sauce?

[Guest guest]

I couldn't find small fish with heads either. So I bought some small headless

smelt and some shrimp with heads and used a mixture. It turned out great and I

used some to make the NT ketchup which is really good.

Amy Waters

Small fish for fish sauce?

Does anyone have any suggestions where I can get fish with their heads still

on? Or any ideas for a substitute?

[Guest guest]

Hey Amy how about posting exactly what you did?

I want to try that one.

Could you also post it to our ga.wpf group???

Thanks

Lynn

> I couldn't find small fish with heads either. So I bought some

small headless smelt and some shrimp with heads and used a mixture.

It turned out great and I used some to make the NT ketchup which is

really good.

> Amy Waters

> Small fish for fish sauce?

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> Does anyone have any suggestions where I can get fish with their

heads still

> on? Or any ideas for a substitute?

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[Guest guest]

I followed the fish sauce recipe in NT except I just added raw shrimp heads

since the fish were headless. Man you should have seen the look on my husbands

face when he saw the jar fermenting on the counter for three days. I didn't

tell him I used it to make the ketchup he loved so much. LOL

Amy Waters

Small fish for fish sauce?

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> Does anyone have any suggestions where I can get fish with their

heads still

> on? Or any ideas for a substitute?

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[Guest guest]

>Does anyone have any suggestions where I can get fish with their heads still

>on? Or any ideas for a substitute?

If you have an " ethnic " part of town, they will sell them whole. My Korean store

does, and when

I was in LA I chanced upon this wonderful little hole-in-the-wall store with the

most

magnificent seafood dept I've ever seen -- and the fish were all whole. Our

local

grocery though has lots of whole fish ... they will clean them if you want, but

you

can buy them whole too. I notice that in the Korean store, the fish are frozen

WHOLE

including the guts. The Korean store also sells just frozen fish heads and

tails,

for soup I presume.

-- Heidi Jean

[Guest guest]

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> Does anyone have any suggestions where I can get fish with their

heads still

> on? Or any ideas for a substitute?

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Hi Nermal,

The ocean--oftentimes you can find fish there that still have their

heads on, but I can't speak to the specifics and I'm going more by

theory than observation on this one.

Mike

SE Pennsylvania

p.s. The answer is Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Thai grocery

stores. Wide variety of frozen small whole fish, etc. If you don't

leave near any, just move.

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