Serve with anything and everything—it will get better, spicier, and more Vietnamese-approved over time.
Recipe information
Yield
2–4 servings
Ingredients
3
/4 cup sugar
3
/4 cup fish sauce
2
1/2 tablespoons minced garlic
2
Thai chilies, stemmed and finely chopped
1
cup Coco Rico brand soda
1
cup key lime or lime juice
Need to make a substitution?
Preparation
In a pot, dissolve sugar into fish sauce on low heat. Remove from heat and add garlic, chilies, soda, and key lime juice. Stir it all in, taste it (it should be lightly sweet and barely fishlike savory, with a little bit of tanginess), and adjust to your liking; but remember, the main ingredients are sugar, water, and acid/limes. If you have too much of one ingredient, you will have to balance the flavor by adding appropriate amounts of the other two main ingredients.
From Adventures in Starry Kitchen: 88 Asian-Inspired Recipes from America's Most Famous Underground Restaurant © 2017 by Nguyen Tran. Reprinted by permission of Harper One, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
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