The culinary website Taste Atlas has announced the top 100 best sauces in the world and Vietnam's dipping sauce ranked 22nd with 4.4 stars.
This dipping sauce is usually made from lemon juice or vinegar, sugar, water and fish sauce. To make it more appealing, the dipping sauce also has spices such as chili, garlic, onion, ginger...
There are many types of dipping sauce depending on the region as well as the accompanying dishes and are mainly used to dip spring rolls, spring rolls, banh xeo, meat dishes, and seafood.
In addition to the garlic fish sauce, Vietnam's fermented fish sauce was also honored by Taste Atlas at number 96 with 3.9 stars. Mam nem, also known as mam cai, is made from fermented fish, mixed with other spices including sugar, chili, lime juice, pineapple and garlic.
Toum is ranked first on this list with 4.7 stars, a traditional Lebanese and Syrian garlic sauce. It is made from crushed garlic, canola or olive oil, lemon juice and salt. Toum can be used as a marinade, sauce and dip.
Coming in at number two is Colombia’s Hogao sauce with 4.7 stars, which is often used as a condiment, dip or topping. The combination of tomatoes, onions, coriander, garlic, cumin, salt and black pepper creates a very rich sauce.
Hogao sauce is commonly used as a dipping sauce for meat dishes, arepas (a Colombian toast) and rice.
