Message: | I have from a reliable source that vegetarian fish sauce is easily available at the large Vietnamese groceries in OC. If you are far away from there then perhaps you can get it other places such as Hollywood Thai Town. But anyway it does exist commercially (look for the buddhist food symbol).
I was also given a quick-and-dirty recipe for fake fish-sauce: one measure vinegar, one measure brown sugar, 2-3 measures water, and 1/4 measure salt. There was some debate about how much salt... but what you get in the end should be pretty salty. I'm sure there are more elaborate concoctions, but this is a very rough approximation used when nothing else is available. |