Red Boat Fish Sauce | Premium 40°N Fish Sauce made with just 2 ingredients in Vietnam | Keto, Paleo & Whole 30 | Gluten and Sugar free | 17 fl oz

I grew up on Southeast Asian cuisine such as Vietnamese, Thai and Khmer food so having fish sauce was a must. This sauce was very pleasant to cook with. It reminds me of Squid Brand fish sauce but just in a trendier package. I cooked shrimp with onions and tomatoes with this, along with some stir fried dark meat chicken with basic veggies and the flavor matched what memory serves. The render chicken schmaltz along with black pepper, soy sauce, oyster sauce and this fish sauce made a wonderful sauce to suspend that stir fry in. Over pillowy white rice and it was heavenly. Don't get me going on the shrimp dish, it's a southeast Asian classic and Tomatoes and Onions cooked with soy/oyster/fish sauce is a hard hitting home cooked meal. Even my wife, who is Austrian American, loves this fish sauce. But then again she loves stinky cheeses and all that funky stuff also so she's probably not the common barometer for it :). If you haven't used fish sauce before, it's a great flavor enhancer and umami bomb. The smells pretty potent but it cooks out and it really adds a punch to your dish. Even the late Anthony Bourdain suggest people who normally wouldn't use it to add it into things like their stuffing for Thanksgiving. Some of the best Guacomole some of my friends and guest of the family had was at a July 4th party where my sister used a little fish sauce with your normal Pico, Lime, and Avocado and people couldn't stop eating it. I think this Red Boat Fish sauce is a good one to get to try Fish Sauce out.

This sauce is high-quality and really enhances the flavor of many Asian foods.

Great product. Tastes good as an ingredient in many different dishes

This is fish sauce - not oyster sauce. Fish sauce, made only with anchovies, goes in while cooking, usually at the beginning. Oyster sauce, made with oysters, oyster brine, sugar, and other ingredients, is more of a finishing seasoning going in at the end of cooking. They are not the same and are not interchangeable. Red Boat is a quality premium fish sauce made only with anchovies and water. Other fish sauces may have other ingredients, and while tasty, aren't the same. A little goes a long way. Buy Red Boat - nothing else comes close.

Very good, strong flavor and aroma

This is my favorite fish sauce, by far. My experience and opinion of Red Boat formed in the context of having used other fish sauces in the past, so I'm reviewing this one by comparing it to those. Tiparos used to be my go-to brand. It has a classic flavor—salty, savory, not subtle, but not strong. It's no accident that so many other brands have names similar to "Tiparos". It was one of the first mass produced brands and is familiar to many people around the world. Its agreeable flavor and value lend it a broad appeal. It works well in a wide variety of uses: as a light seasoning, as the mainstay of a cooked sauce, or as a raw dipping sauce (as in nam prik). Three Crabs is more pungent than Tiparos. It's good if you want a stronger, more savory flavor. It's not subtle, rather fishy, and maybe overpowering in raw form. It's easily one of the cheapest brands, so you get a lot for your money. Red Boat reminds me of Tiparos more than Three Crabs, in that it strikes a very nice balance in the strength of its flavor. One the one hand, it's powerful enough to retain plenty of flavor when it's cooked. On the other hand, it's mild enough that it still works really well in raw form. More than either of the other brands, Red Boat has an incredible depth and complexity of flavor. It's highly distinctive. Having entrained my palate to Red Boat, whenever I try another brand, it's never quite as satisfying. This one deserves all the praise it's given. I have absolutely no misgivings about paying more for it. To conclude, I draw an analogy to wines. Tiparos is like a Merlot—pleasant, medium bodied, highly versatile, but very simple. Three Crabs is like a Malbec—strong, dark, and unforgiving. Red Boat is like a fine Bordeaux—a bouquet of flavors, a medium-to-full body, deserving of appreciation on its own, but getting along splendidly with others.

The best fish sauce I have ever had including other Vietnamese brands and Worcestershire. It has a bit of a thicker viscosity than others which is good, a sign it's unadulterated. No hint of sweetness either like others that add it in. I imagine it's what Roman Garum might have tasted like, just fish and salt. Despite it being a little pricier than others, you'll get more servings per bottle due to the lack of additives.

This is the best grade I've found. Lasts a long time and tastes great!

Great product

On découvre avec la sauce red boat qu'il y a sauce nuoc mama et sauce nuoc mam ! Celle-ci n'a que le goût du poisson salé, c est délicieux, pas écœurant du tout, et bonus : c est bon pour la santé puisqu'il n'y a aucun additif, contrairement aux sauces bas de gamme du commerce. Certes le prix est nettement plus élevé, mais comme le goût est pur, une cuillère à café suffit pour tout un plat pour 4 personnes. Donc finalement, c est plus économique. Je recommande cet article, qui tient toutes ses promesses.

Buen producto

Kaufgrund: Gekauft, weil wir Fischsauce regelmäßig nutzen und über die Jahre viele Marken ausprobiert haben. Für meine Mutter, für meine Frau und für mich ist das die leckerste Fischsauce. Nutzungsdauer: Seit Juli 2025 regelmäßig im Einsatz Qualität & Zusammensetzung: Die Red Boat Fischsauce besteht ausschließlich aus Sardellen (80 %) und Salz. Der hohe Sardellenanteil und die reduzierte Zutatenliste sorgen für einen klaren, intensiven Geschmack. Praxiserfahrung: Wir nutzen Fischsauce häufig beim kochen von vietnamesischen, thailändischen und anderen südostasiatischen Gerichten. Aufgrund des höheren Preises verwenden wir die Red Boat Fischsauce vor allem, wenn sie ungekocht verarbeitet wird, z. B. Dipsaucen, Nachwürzen in Nudelsuppen. Für reine Kochen greifen wir auch öfters zu anderen Fischsaucen, die geschmacklich anders, aber ebenfalls sehr gut und günstiger sind. Positiv: -Sehr intensiver, ausgewogener Geschmack -Hoher Sardellenanteil (80 %) -Sehr natürlich, keine Zusatzstoffe außer Salz -Ideal für Dips und zum Nachwürzen Negativ: - Höherer Preis (wegen der Qualität aber vollkommen gerechtfertigt) Geeignet für: -Alle, die Wert auf Qualität, Natürlichkeit und Geschmack legen. -Besonders für Gerichte/Dips, bei denen die Fischsauce ungekocht verwendet wird. Eher nicht geeignet für: -Käufer, die große Mengen ausschließlich zum Kochen benötigen. -Sehr preisbewusste Nutzer, aber auch diese Preisbewussten sollten es mindestens einmal probiert haben um den Unterschied zu schmecken. Fazit: Für uns eine außergewöhnlich hochwertige Fischsauce. Wir kaufen sie regelmäßig nach und verschenken sie auch gerne. Der höhere Preis ist angesichts der Qualität absolut gerechtfertigt

The product itself looks superb and I've no doubt I will be very pleased once I start to use. (currently got a supermarket one on the go) Why am I reviewing now? - partly to say what the ingredients are: anchovies and salt. No added sugar and no shellfish (Important for me as I'm allergic to some of them). Bought 21 April 2016, expiry date 12 Nov 2018, so plenty of time to use. Size: 17 fl oz, or 525ml, rather than the 500ml advertised (I'm not complaining). Reviewing the packing in a review of the product is frowned on but this is such a difficult product to post that packing virtually becomes as important as the product itself - I bought solely because it was being sent by Amazon UK so I knew outer packing would be good; the seller was an Alabama company called Friday 515 who presumably are responsible for the inner packing: bottle well sealed, placed in a sealed plastic bag, (so any spillage would have been contained), triple taped bubble wrapping, all inserted in a heavy duty well fitting box. Perfect. I think it is going to be well worth what I paid. Edit: I'm allergic to shellfish, but not all. I 'tested' (ate a small amount!) of anchovy prior to using regularly and I'm OK no reaction. If you are allergic to shellfish you may or may not be allergic to anchovies. Edit: Now using, high quality, not sure its going to last me as long as I thought, as I'm finding it a useful addition to several types of meals. Yet to try in scrambled eggs! Its not as fishy smelling as other reviews led me to believe and there is no fishy taste in any completed meals.