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
Soy sauce sauce"), and "guk-ganjang" (, "soup soy sauce"). The homebrewed variety is also called "jip-ganjang" (, "home soy sauce"). Depending on the length of aging, "hansik ganjang" can be divided into three main varieties: clear, middle, and dark. Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety's Food Code classifies "hansik-ganjang" into two categories by their ingredients. "Gaeryang-ganjang" (, "modernized soy sauce"), referring to varieties of soy sauces not made of meju, is now the most widely used type of soy sauce in modern Korean cuisine. The word "ganjang" without modifiers in bokkeum (stir-fry), jorim (braised or simmered dishes), and jjim (steamed dishes)