Thanks for sharing this recipe tinker. I never really ate oyster or fish sauce until a friend of ours took us to a pho (prounounce 'fa ahh') soup joint. We now make our own pho soup, including a chicken pho soup, and have a selection of different fish sauces and oyster sauces.
After using these sauces in the soup, we realized they're the real flavor of food we get when we eat at Asian restaurants. I meaning, it's not the soy sauce, it's these two sauces. When we used to try to make asian meals, we couldn't get the taste right using only soy sauce, sesame oil and ginger. Now, we're right on!
For those of you at home
, these sauces are a little smelly, but add a lot of flavor and the smell vanishes in the cooking. A friend of ours says the smellier ones cost the most.