Name
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Description
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Mắm tôm
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Fermented shrimp paste
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Mắm cáy
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Made from Sesarmidae (family of crabs), in north central coast of Vietnam
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Mắm cá thu
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Made from mackerel fish, usually in Bình Định province
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Mắm nêm
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Usually made from round scad fish, in central Vietnam
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Mắm ruốc
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Made from krill, from central Vietnam
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Mắm cá linh
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Made from a kind of fish that immigrates to the Mekong Delta every flood season from Tonlé Sap, Cambodia
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Nước mắm or mắm mặn
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General name for all fish sauces but usually refer to pure extracted anchovy fish sauce
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