Fish Sauce

Cooked a new receipe tonight (sweet chilli chicken and rice) . Dead easy and very yummy. The only thing was the receipe called for Fish Sauce, so I added it, stirred it in and then nearly puked at the smell! It was possibly to worst smelling thing I have ever come across in cooking. I refused to taste the dinner so I made my husband do the taste test. He assured me it was fine. I reluctantly had a taste and well continued to help myself to three servings. Very, very yummy but very, very, very bad smelling!!!!