Lorins Patis Philippine Fish Sauce 1000ml (Unbreakable Bottle)

This Patis is excellent and really speaks for itself. If you’ve spent any time in the Philippines you know this is the brand to get.

Item arrived in a non-breakable plastic; that was all that’s good about it. The “fish sauce” has nothing fish about it— smelled like chemicals, tasted like salted chemicals. A tiny bit to taste gave me a slight headache almost instantaneously. Nothing like the fish sauce I knew back in the Philippines. Down the drain it went since I am homebound and cannot go mail it back if it happened to be returnable, or is it? It was not shipped to me via Amazon and I had to pay shipping and handling.The label was taped with one tiny piece of scotch tape. Ingredients: Water (maybe lots of it), fermented fish extract, iodized salt, sodium benzoate, caramel (the brownish color), potassium sorbate, saccharin, monosodium glutamate, and disodium inosinate.Sounds like the fish was cultured in a chemical laboratory.Follow-up: When I drained the bottle of fish sauce, I rinsed the bottle a few times, and let it go at that. A couple of hours later, from the pipe was coming a rotting, dead rat smell, I had to rinse it with buckets of chlorine water and detergent. The fish sauce extract was rotten, and a small amount highly diluted with water and the smell drowned with chemicals. Bad business strategy.

As described.

Excellent product. ...wife loves the flavor. ..will have to order more!!!