Nam O fish sauce craft village

Nam O is a small fishing village located at the mouth of Cu De river, at the foot of Hai Van pass, now in Hoa Hiep ward, Lien Chieu district, Da Nang city. This place is famous for fish sauce made according to the secret passed down from generation to generation. Experiencing many ups and downs, people in the profession still keep their jobs and make fragrant and sweet fish sauce drops.

Nam O fish sauce is famous with the secret of making fish sauce "3 fish 1 salt" separately and completely by hand. Made from anchovies, which are only available from March to August of the lunar calendar, the fish is carefully selected, fresh and not too big or too small. After that, the fish is washed with sea water because fresh water will lose the natural fish taste. The jar of salted fish must be made of jackfruit wood and must be filled with grit and broom at the bottom of the jar. The stage of fish sauce filtration must be filtered by ransom to ensure a pure, aromatic fish sauce. For every 200-300kg of fish, put in a jar and incubate after 12 months will produce from 100-150 liters of pure fish sauce. The rest is filtered into fish sauce type 2, type 3 sold at affordable prices.

In particular, the salt used to brew Nam O Da Nang fish sauce is large-grained salt from the waters of Binh Thuan, Nha Trang or Quang Ngai. Salt is dried for 5-10 days, then stored in jars for 1-2 years, then used that salt to salt fish.

With many meticulous details in the selection of ingredients and processing, Nam O fish sauce therefore has a very distinct flavor.

After traveling to Da Nang, visiting the Nam O Fish Sauce making village and buying a few bottles as a gift for the family to try is nothing more intimate.