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
Nasi goreng breakfast are the leftovers of the previous day's meals preserved in the refrigerator, with fresh vegetables and eggs added. The basic ingredients of "nasi goreng" are rice and sliced or ground "bumbu" (spices) mixture of shallot, garlic, pepper, salt, tomato ketchup, sambal or chili sauce, and usually sweet soy sauce. Some variants may add "saus tiram" (oyster sauce), "ang-ciu" (Chinese cooking red wine), "kecap ikan" (fish sauce), or "kecap inggris" (like Worcestershire sauce). The texture of leftover cooked rice is considered more suitable for "nasi goreng" than that of newly cooked rice, as freshly cooked rice is too moist and