Fish sauce is often made from anchovies, salt, and water, and is intensely flavoured. Anchovies and salt are arranged in wooden barrels to ferment and are slowly pressed, yielding the salty, fishy liquid. The salt extracts the liquid via osmosis. Southeast Asians generally use fish sauce as a cooking sauce. However, there is a sweet and sour version of this sauce which is used more commonly as a dipping sauce (see "nước chấm"). Fish sauce in Burma is called "ngan bya yay" (ငံပြာရည်). In Cambodia, fish sauce is known as "teuk trei" (ទឹកត្រី), of which there are a variety of sauces using
Greek-style fish Greek-style fish Greek-style fish – a dish known in Poland possibly based on Greek Psari Plaki, served hot or cold which is prepared from fried pieces or fillets of fish in vegetable sauce. Basic sauce ingredients are grated carrots, parsley, celery, onion as well as tomato concentrate. All of them are fried in oil and then braised with water, salt, pepper and spices (traditionally allspice, bay leaf and sometimes other ones). After frying, fish is shortly braised with previously stewed vegetables. Braised fish in previously stewed and grated mirepoix with onion used to be called gefilte fish. In Poland, Greek-style