Hahahah that smell was... something!!! What a wild plant! So excited that we got to work together on this one! Can't wait to do it again in the future... in person haha
@@WeirdExplorer 🤔 Might it be possible to brew coffee with this? To mix it into coffee? What about combining it into regular teas? (Furthermore-any thoughtful speculation as to possible hazing and/or initiation potential?...)
Ooh the smell is soooo strong that just rubbling a leaf on your finger makes your hand smell and seem forever to get that smell off. I love this TH-camrs face about eating this stuff, you can tell it's awful!
Talapia will taste like a combination of whatever you feed it and whatever their water tastes like. Talapia are a good choice for people who like to reduce their household waste as well. They're happy to eat most of the food waste that doesn't work very well in a compost bin, but they're even happier to get the veggie peals too. The first commercial talapia farms in the U.S. used a combination of lawn clippings, cow patties and bloodmeal pellets... I'm glad times have changed, but that just shows what a variety of conditions those fish will thrive in.
@@iaw7406 Have you ever eaten freshly caught, freshwater fish, from a clean river or lake? I can say with certainty that trout doesn't taste like anything when you eat it directly from the river. Lamprey eels are the same way. Other fish, but especially sharks and stingrays develop a stronger flavor as time goes on. You're most likely going to need to do a few chemistry experiments to get your fish without the fish flavor. I suspect that fish mint contains trimethylamine, the same substance responsible for dead fish smelling like dead fish. I'm willing to bet a foodsafe chemical exists that will break down trimethylamine. It's a common enough "nuisance odor'" in and around kitchens...
@@Amy_the_Lizard: I can just imagine a crassly down-to-seafloor elder mermaid asking "Why do all these landwalkers wanna spawn directly in our chum buckets?!"
Worcestershire sauce is the turing test of "are they british" cos we dont even pronounce half of it. most people just say it as "Wuster" but "Wustershur" is also accepted.
Fish sauce tastes a LOT like preserved tofu, including the salt content. Mash some of that up with a small spoon of water and use it as a substitute. It works pretty well, but it's not as funky
@@eolgrillo but noni juice is faster in lowering blood tension, lol. My tension is low and l feel dizzy after just 30 minutes after drink it, lol, l don't know at that time my tensions usually low. And it has a bad taste if noni juice bottled, when it fresh it quite just sour, but the smell, yeah you can imagine it 😰
I like the smell of it. It has a sort of orange peel & green pepper with hints of coriander scent to my nose. However I don't care for it in cooking. The chinese & japanese use it medicinally quite a lot I believe. Saururaceae the family that this plant belongs to it extremely close to Piperaceae all very ancient flowering plant families. They have these powerful scents that detered the herbivorous dinosaurs from eating them.
I was just thinking this. I have some in my hand right now. hon-dashi and some wakame. Maybe a little watercress. fried tofu carrots and daikon with awase miso. yep. gonna toss it all in my rice cooker and see right now
I have looked at wonder lust nursery myself. The challenge I have found is a lot of their stuff is not hardy to here where I live and a lot of their stuff grow on trees that can get massive.
Its great as a perennial shade garden plant though, dry or wet, this is a very hard to kill plant so if u have some difficult garden spots give it a try.
@@MattBeckley Yup I have found all herbs very resilient. My mother has mint that she has to just rip out of the ground and I have oregano in pots that I have not watered in months and the snow has just kept them going. Herbs are nice in the fact they are very hard to kill.
Sichuan people mix roots of this plant with sichuan pepper and chili pepper, they would serve them as appetizers. I am not a big fans of spicy food or this plant but I always have this plant on my balcony. Just in case, if I need some drink to ease my cough or sore throat, i can take one or two leaves and make some tea.
I had many products while travelling in Asia that used this plant as a way to make faux fish "meat" and I was a full on fan. Had not had fish in about 14 years so your experiences may vary!
i want to try this! haha i know dead fish smells i used to live close to "goldstream" which is where our local salmon run up stream so like half of them die and there is dead fish everywhere lol the smell is wonderful and nostalgic.
Hi Jared. Happy new year. As I know, the strange british pronounciation of the sauce is like I would write it as Woostershirr Sauce. That fish mint is a herb I've never heard of, TY for sharing.
The extra is cat pee. I have this plant in variegated form; its considered super healing as a tea in Japan, as you mention. My friend, who is originally from Japan, has a friend who sends her dried leaves for blood pressure tea; American ones are not preferred lol. Its not too bad when its fresh in summer. This is a vigorous spreader and I have a challenge keeping it in a cement enclosed flower bed. I took some to the local Thai restaurant to see if they wanted some for themselves, fresh. They made a face similar to yours! Hahaha!
Thanks for sharing your experience and doing the collaboration! I might try to make those vegan shrimp things I've been seeing around on vids. Maybe in sushi
I find herbs can be very invasive in general assuming they can survive the temperatures of where you live. I have had plenty of herbs bounce back from death more than one times. Last year we were harvesting mint from our yard and I think that just made it spread even more.
You read my mind... more likely than not, it's gonna be trimethylamine. Since it smells like fish, we know it's fairly dilute. Unless you REALLY suck at synthesizing tertiary amines, there's no reason to extract the volitile constituents of this plant. The yield would likely have less value than the solvents needed to extract the trimethylamine from the leaves. Besides, there are much more entertaining ways to make your garage smell like a well used vagina.
Here's the thing... Fish sauce is not used to add a fishy taste to the food. It is used to increase the saltiness and umami flavour of the dishes, if you for any reason get a fishy taste in your cooking, you've used way too much fish sauce. Just a head's up :)
Fish Mint must be the new popular weird food on TH-cam. Chinese Cooking Demystified used it in their last video in a rice bowl dish. Thanks for actually providing a link to a place that sells it in the USA, you should send that link to them so they can add it to their video description. All they say is "it can be hard to find outside of China," which is correct.
I love when you actually cook with the various fruits and plants you try, but boy do i wish you would get a proper knife. Watching you hack away at that papaya with a tiny pairing knife is hard to see.
It also is called Hot Tuna. There are variegated forms that are lovely. The roots are extra stinky. Really fresh fish, particularly freshwater fish like trout, does not smell nasty.
Very interesting to hear you describe fish mint taste haha. I would recommend you to try Centella asiatica or Asiatic pennywort too. These 2 have similar taste, but C.asiatica has more nutty/starchy taste to it. In Vietnam, we drink these 2 as beverages in summer. Just blend heapful of fresh leaves, strain, add some sugar to the juice and drink, or add a couple of ice cubes. Super refreshing and good source of vitamin C!
That looks like we might grow it as a house plant. It looks easy to grow. I like this plant. Thanks for the information. What is fish flavor? Probably i am walking around with fish chum bucket flavors and don't even know it.
Another Great Video. I Love the smell of fish. Reminds me of the Ocean. And Brings Back memories of Me Going Fishing With my Dad(May He Rest In Good GOD'S Presence). Many Good Memories. Some people dislike the smell of Fish.
Rau diep ca (fish mint) is delicious in spring rolls. It is a Vietnamese staple! Consider it as a garnish with other fresh vegetables. It adds robustness without being overpowering 😊
I'm Vietnamese, it's one of very common herbs. We use it in spring rolls with mints or anything that can be consumed with herb salad. When I eat this, I don't even taste the fish anymore, it's more like a sea version of sorrel. haha
i was listening to this in the background and didnt realize you were using the "HP 4: winter ball" music for this. i couldnt figure out where i was hearing it from at first.
You should try Rare Mango salad. It's a Vietnamese dish eaten in Hot weather to cool you off and it taste amazing. Try it out, it has to be raw green mango's for the tart taste.
It's also called Vietnamese coriander, and if you smell it again I'll bet you'll notice a similarity to cilantro (soapy smell and all). I've sold it as an ornamental landscape plant (as well as telling people how best to try to eradicate it, since, like vinca, ivy, and many others, it's hard to get rid of once it's in the environment), and I've even cooked with it, but I can honestly say I've never noticed a fishy smell. I'll have to revisit it.
For the fishy component haven't found any confirmation, but I suspect it's probably something similar to 2-thiophenethiol aka 2-thienyl mercaptan that is described as having a fishy but also coffee-like odor and seems frequently to occur together with myrcene and ocimene for example in cannabis and hops they may share similar terpene synthesis pathways in the plants.
This is why some strains make awful steam distilled oils, smelling of dirty ashtray and low tide. This genus is related to one of my favorite North American natives, Saururus cernuus, aka lizard tail.
If its fish sauce youre curious about a big part of its use is as a way to salt food as its basically a brine, id compare the taste when i do notice to a bit of a parmesan sort of funk, my mom doesnt like fishy tasting things but she likes nuac cham, basically idk if fish sauce is necessarily aproximated by something fishy, i think the fermentation (and salt)is really the main flavor, fishy may be a good start tho
There are vegan fish sauces, it's pretty close to the actual thing in taste and smell. I believe it's mostly pineapple juice. For your papaya salad, you're missing some chilies, peanuts, and spearmints.
I have this growing in my garden here in Oregon cause a sweet old lady gave it to me. Said "it's easy to grow and has a pretty flower" it's TRUE, it's way to easy to grow, so much so it spreads everywhere. I have a variegated variety that has pink and white stripes as well. It's so smelly that nothing eats it either, no bugs either lol.
I've been using seaweeds for the fishy flavor in my vegan fish substituted but I do like the sound of something I can grow in my own garden. I mean, I'm gonna farm some seaweed one of these days but that'll take more effort.
Thank you for the great content. I explored the website that sells this product but could not find the plant using variants of its name described in the video. Do you think the site has discontinued sales until spring?
My SE Asian friends and family love this and eat it in large quantities. I think it tastes terrible, but it is an attractive plant and a hilarious thing to show off to anyone touring the garden.
I’ve seen this growing in a garden here in Sydney and recall the fishy smell my hand had from handling the leaf. Definitely not a fan of ‘Fishy’ flavour but can eat pan fried salmon or freshly caught fish from the surf cooked and eaten within an hour occasionally.
Just read that myrcene is one of the major components and that is a citrusy component that's in thyme, hops, lemon grass, verbena and cannabis among others.
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Hahahah that smell was... something!!! What a wild plant! So excited that we got to work together on this one! Can't wait to do it again in the future... in person haha
Looking forward to it man! We make a good team... even virtually 😁
@@WeirdExplorer
🤔 Might it be possible to brew coffee with this? To mix it into coffee?
What about combining it into regular teas?
(Furthermore-any thoughtful speculation as to possible hazing and/or initiation potential?...)
As a vegetarian who misses the taste of meat, I am so excited about hearing about your channel..
I was about to ask why I have a fishy plant by two seperate people in my subscriptions. XD
Omg my icons
I'm sure this would make an amazing vegan ramen fish broth
Wait till vegan teacher gets a hold of these
@@frijolejuice6043 lol
Great idea! Would love to see Emmy Made try that 👀
Or saimin
Ooh the smell is soooo strong that just rubbling a leaf on your finger makes your hand smell and seem forever to get that smell off. I love this TH-camrs face about eating this stuff, you can tell it's awful!
A Vietnamese restaurant I used to frequent, uses it in a vegetarian sweet and sour "fish" soup. It's spectacular!
You should make a salad with this and the "Beefleaf", and call it a vegan surf n' turf.
lolz
Very informative, lol
funny...I just so happened to watch the toon leaf video right before this one.....
need chicken and hen of the woods mushrooms too
Now we need a plant flavoured fish.
Talapia will taste like a combination of whatever you feed it and whatever their water tastes like.
Talapia are a good choice for people who like to reduce their household waste as well.
They're happy to eat most of the food waste that doesn't work very well in a compost bin, but they're even happier to get the veggie peals too.
The first commercial talapia farms in the U.S. used a combination of lawn clippings, cow patties and bloodmeal pellets... I'm glad times have changed, but that just shows what a variety of conditions those fish will thrive in.
@@kaisersose5549 tilapia still tastes like fish. I want a fish which tastes like spinach or raspberries
@@iaw7406
Have you ever eaten freshly caught, freshwater fish, from a clean river or lake?
I can say with certainty that trout doesn't taste like anything when you eat it directly from the river.
Lamprey eels are the same way.
Other fish, but especially sharks and stingrays develop a stronger flavor as time goes on.
You're most likely going to need to do a few chemistry experiments to get your fish without the fish flavor.
I suspect that fish mint contains trimethylamine, the same substance responsible for dead fish smelling like dead fish.
I'm willing to bet a foodsafe chemical exists that will break down trimethylamine.
It's a common enough "nuisance odor'" in and around kitchens...
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Wild Ayu (Plecoglossus altivelis) would develop tastes like melon.
Thanks for braving a flavor you’re not a fan of for our entertainment! Love that you and Sauce Stache are endorsing each other!
Its a great match, its nice to work with a channel that is doing something different and see what they come up with
This stuff is wild! Thanks for taking one for the team and sharing these incredible plants with us.
Edit: three words- Fish. Mint. Ketchup.
That is funny! I can't imagine how bad that would taste to a non fish lover.
That would be....vegan garum. Oh my gawd
8:55 Chum bucket is one of those phrases that sound like they should be insults, like dill weed.
I feel like we all know somebody nick-named Dill Weed
Sounds like an insult that'd be very offensive to mermaids in a fantasy setting...
@@Amy_the_Lizard: I can just imagine a crassly down-to-seafloor elder mermaid asking "Why do all these landwalkers wanna spawn directly in our chum buckets?!"
I don't smell or taste the fishiness on this plant, just the tartness. Some people are more sensitive to it like cilantro.
Yeah. I can taste the tartness too.
Sometimes time of day or weather patterns can affect plants flavor and scent too. Some plants the soil changes it too.
Worcestershire sauce is the turing test of "are they british" cos we dont even pronounce half of it. most people just say it as "Wuster" but "Wustershur" is also accepted.
Colonials too, I was just about to comment "it's pronounced wooster"
This is awesome! I actually just did a presentation on fish mint for my chemistry class! Super interesting plant!
You need tons of chili pepper in your papaya salad. We know you have bags of the stuff.
Fish sauce tastes a LOT like preserved tofu, including the salt content. Mash some of that up with a small spoon of water and use it as a substitute. It works pretty well, but it's not as funky
"I'd rather drink a gallon of this than a teacup full of noni juice"
I see, the noni hate continues.
noni lovers... are probably the kind of chemists that like making skatole.
Noni defines the revulsion 😛
Noni juice lower blood pressure. But you end up smell sourly all over your body. It's a medicinal use
@@dustpiece5213 They say the same for garlic, and I'd rather eat a whole garlic than half a noni fruit
@@eolgrillo but noni juice is faster in lowering blood tension, lol. My tension is low and l feel dizzy after just 30 minutes after drink it, lol, l don't know at that time my tensions usually low. And it has a bad taste if noni juice bottled, when it fresh it quite just sour, but the smell, yeah you can imagine it 😰
My dad grows that stuff in our garden, I´ve gotten so used to smelling it that it smells good now.
All the cheerfully musical "Fishleaf" segment titles are hilarious.
Just like the cheesy intros to ocean wildlife documentaries in the early 90's lol
This is actually one of my favourite vegetables!!! Add soy sauce, vinegar, garlic & spring onion to make a salad - try it
Mine too 🤣 I used to hate it as a kid though. I think it's something you grow to like it gradually.
thank you 🙏
i bet some watercress would do well in there too
I like the smell of it. It has a sort of orange peel & green pepper with hints of coriander scent to my nose.
However I don't care for it in cooking. The chinese & japanese use it medicinally quite a lot I believe.
Saururaceae the family that this plant belongs to it extremely close to Piperaceae all very ancient flowering plant families.
They have these powerful scents that detered the herbivorous dinosaurs from eating them.
How on earth do you know dinosaurs didn't like it?
@@misterjib time travel.
@@misterjib Logic and science.
mister jib he asked them
@@yfrontsguy the dinosaurs were a very logical and scientific people
10:16 Man, Jared has the most memeworthy disappoint faces.
Saucestache is an amazing channel. I virtually only eat meat and that channel is still fascinating.
One of my favorite things about you is that you really give things a fair shot.
Might be good to make a dashi for miso soup
I was just thinking this. I have some in my hand right now. hon-dashi and some wakame. Maybe a little watercress. fried tofu carrots and daikon with awase miso.
yep. gonna toss it all in my rice cooker and see right now
bought that beef one when I saw the last video... can't wait to get it in the spring :D
I have looked at wonder lust nursery myself. The challenge I have found is a lot of their stuff is not hardy to here where I live and a lot of their stuff grow on trees that can get massive.
Omg! I've been searching for the name of this plant for ages. Had it in an Thai type dish at Pok Pok and it was amazing!
I couldnt describe the smell as good as you did😂😂 congrats 100% accurate
Fish mint is delicious IMO.
And yes, I agree papaya salad is delicious too!
You are a modern day holy man. I wouldn’t miss an episode for an enormous amount.
I wish good health and all the best to you and yours!
I'm into perennial vegetables and this is one that has been recommended to me. Now I know it's not one that I'm particularly interested in.
The thing about herbs is they will bounce back 10 fold on whatever you through at them but you need to like the taste.
Its great as a perennial shade garden plant though, dry or wet, this is a very hard to kill plant so if u have some difficult garden spots give it a try.
@@MattBeckley Yup I have found all herbs very resilient. My mother has mint that she has to just rip out of the ground and I have oregano in pots that I have not watered in months and the snow has just kept them going. Herbs are nice in the fact they are very hard to kill.
As a huge fan of fishy flavors (I put fish sauce in everything) I think I'd like this herb 🤤
😮 nature is so weird 😆 brave of you to try lol
There are so many crazy plants! A new surprise every day
Sichuan people mix roots of this plant with sichuan pepper and chili pepper, they would serve them as appetizers. I am not a big fans of spicy food or this plant but I always have this plant on my balcony. Just in case, if I need some drink to ease my cough or sore throat, i can take one or two leaves and make some tea.
I hear it tastes good in fried rice.
Have tried it before, and for me it is so yucky.
Thank you that is good information.
Dream collab, been excited about this possibility since the beef leaf
Can't wait for when he reviews the leaf that tastes like a plant
I had many products while travelling in Asia that used this plant as a way to make faux fish "meat" and I was a full on fan. Had not had fish in about 14 years so your experiences may vary!
I accidently ate this while holidaying in Vietnam. The fresh fish guts flavour profile scarred me for life.
i want to try this! haha i know dead fish smells i used to live close to "goldstream" which is where our local salmon run up stream so like half of them die and there is dead fish everywhere lol the smell is wonderful and nostalgic.
That sounds like absolute hell to me, but I'm glad you like it!
It is a very tasty leafy vegetable. We call it "mosondori". Wildly available in my native Assam, India.
I'm so happy you try these things. It always gives me an idea of types of plants I want to try to eat and try to grow.
Hi Jared.
Happy new year.
As I know, the strange british pronounciation of the sauce is like I would write it as Woostershirr Sauce.
That fish mint is a herb I've never heard of, TY for sharing.
The extra is cat pee. I have this plant in variegated form; its considered super healing as a tea in Japan, as you mention. My friend, who is originally from Japan, has a friend who sends her dried leaves for blood pressure tea; American ones are not preferred lol. Its not too bad when its fresh in summer. This is a vigorous spreader and I have a challenge keeping it in a cement enclosed flower bed. I took some to the local Thai restaurant to see if they wanted some for themselves, fresh. They made a face similar to yours! Hahaha!
Thanks for sharing your experience and doing the collaboration! I might try to make those vegan shrimp things I've been seeing around on vids. Maybe in sushi
I find herbs can be very invasive in general assuming they can survive the temperatures of where you live. I have had plenty of herbs bounce back from death more than one times. Last year we were harvesting mint from our yard and I think that just made it spread even more.
Damn I haven't checked in, in a minute. Congrats on the growth!
Think of the “tea” made from the fresh leaf as a substitute seafood broth
Amphetamine paste also often smells like fish because of Amines. Maybe this leaf also contains Amines?
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You read my mind... more likely than not, it's gonna be trimethylamine.
Since it smells like fish, we know it's fairly dilute.
Unless you REALLY suck at synthesizing tertiary amines, there's no reason to extract the volitile constituents of this plant.
The yield would likely have less value than the solvents needed to extract the trimethylamine from the leaves.
Besides, there are much more entertaining ways to make your garage smell like a well used vagina.
@@kaisersose5549 Snickersnorts.
It an acquired taste not everyone likes it but I love it. I used it in my different Asian salads and spring rolls.
Here's the thing... Fish sauce is not used to add a fishy taste to the food. It is used to increase the saltiness and umami flavour of the dishes, if you for any reason get a fishy taste in your cooking, you've used way too much fish sauce. Just a head's up :)
Agreed. I doubt that this fish mint is compatible with papaya salad as it probably lacks the salty umami flavour.
It means no worries
*For the rest of your days
I like that even if you don't like a flavor or a fruit, you still try and incorporate and taste it in other things.
Fish Mint must be the new popular weird food on TH-cam. Chinese Cooking Demystified used it in their last video in a rice bowl dish. Thanks for actually providing a link to a place that sells it in the USA, you should send that link to them so they can add it to their video description. All they say is "it can be hard to find outside of China," which is correct.
I love when you actually cook with the various fruits and plants you try, but boy do i wish you would get a proper knife. Watching you hack away at that papaya with a tiny pairing knife is hard to see.
Sometimes he scares me with the knife. Every time he eats with it I think he is going to cut himself with it.
The first minute of this video was absolutely hilarious!
I love this leave. It’s very delicious.
It also is called Hot Tuna. There are variegated forms that are lovely. The roots are extra stinky. Really fresh fish, particularly freshwater fish like trout, does not smell nasty.
Very interesting to hear you describe fish mint taste haha. I would recommend you to try Centella asiatica or Asiatic pennywort too.
These 2 have similar taste, but C.asiatica has more nutty/starchy taste to it.
In Vietnam, we drink these 2 as beverages in summer. Just blend heapful of fresh leaves, strain, add some sugar to the juice and drink, or add a couple of ice cubes. Super refreshing and good source of vitamin C!
That looks like we might grow it as a house plant. It looks easy to grow. I like this plant. Thanks for the information. What is fish flavor? Probably i am walking around with fish chum bucket flavors and don't even know it.
Another Great Video. I Love the smell of fish. Reminds me of the Ocean. And Brings Back memories of Me Going Fishing With my Dad(May He Rest In Good GOD'S Presence). Many Good Memories. Some people dislike the smell of Fish.
Rau diep ca (fish mint) is delicious in spring rolls. It is a Vietnamese staple! Consider it as a garnish with other fresh vegetables. It adds robustness without being overpowering 😊
Yep. Mix it other greens in Thai beef salads. Also, it is good with chicken salad with Italian dressing and other greens.
these are delicious, I love eating them with fried tofu and fish sauce or grilled beef in vinegar
I'm Vietnamese, it's one of very common herbs. We use it in spring rolls with mints or anything that can be consumed with herb salad. When I eat this, I don't even taste the fish anymore, it's more like a sea version of sorrel. haha
I love this plant when eating it with pho. It adds a little bit of sourness into the dish
I was excited to try it but when I did. Omg Yes Wet Dog is the word!
If you want tasty, savory greens with a seafoody kind of flavor profile, try SEA VEGGIES! Wakame tastes especially awesome!
I've eaten this and he's right. It tastes like past its prime fish, with a green minty in the background.
When you plug your nose and say the plant name you sound like a mob boss. "I said houttuynia cordata, kapeich?"
i was listening to this in the background and didnt realize you were using the "HP 4: winter ball" music for this. i couldnt figure out where i was hearing it from at first.
You should try Rare Mango salad. It's a Vietnamese dish eaten in Hot weather to cool you off and it taste amazing. Try it out, it has to be raw green mango's for the tart taste.
Woostershire sauce. It helps if you grew up in Massachusetts and can pronounce Wooster, MA.
This sounds like it could be helpful in making a vegan paella. Haven't finished watching this but I'm really hoping Vostok reacts to this herb lol.
You can use this leaf in fresh spring rolls with lettuce, green onion, mint, Thai basil and protein of choice.
It's also called Vietnamese coriander, and if you smell it again I'll bet you'll notice a similarity to cilantro (soapy smell and all). I've sold it as an ornamental landscape plant (as well as telling people how best to try to eradicate it, since, like vinca, ivy, and many others, it's hard to get rid of once it's in the environment), and I've even cooked with it, but I can honestly say I've never noticed a fishy smell. I'll have to revisit it.
If you're ever in Cali again, get some miner's lettuce. It's really tasty. Not sure if if grows elsewhere.
Houytunia cordata. Cordata means heart shaped. Let's thank this man who makes these great videos for us.
One of my favourite, I don't know why you hate it :)
For the fishy component haven't found any confirmation, but I suspect it's probably something similar to 2-thiophenethiol aka 2-thienyl mercaptan that is described as having a fishy but also coffee-like odor and seems frequently to occur together with myrcene and ocimene for example in cannabis and hops they may share similar terpene synthesis pathways in the plants.
This is why some strains make awful steam distilled oils, smelling of dirty ashtray and low tide. This genus is related to one of my favorite North American natives, Saururus cernuus, aka lizard tail.
In Vietnam, this is a delicious herbs that used in lots of traditional food.
Are there any sellers that ship the seeds internationally 🥺
@@AAEM-Duke thank you so much
Guess it's an acquired taste but i like it for the smell and a little hint of tartness in its taste(when eaten raw).
SAUCE STACHE!!! YOOO!!!!! so cool!!!
I thought of saucestache as soon as I read the title!
If its fish sauce youre curious about a big part of its use is as a way to salt food as its basically a brine, id compare the taste when i do notice to a bit of a parmesan sort of funk, my mom doesnt like fishy tasting things but she likes nuac cham, basically idk if fish sauce is necessarily aproximated by something fishy, i think the fermentation (and salt)is really the main flavor, fishy may be a good start tho
Awesome plant. In China this is called鱼腥草 and is eaten in sichuang cuisine
Interesting! I was expecting the tea to taste awful... Here we call Worcestershire sauce "salsa inglesa", English sauce.
They invented Worcestershire sauce because nobody wanted to tell them how to make Soy Sauce, so they tried to make a substitute.
I'm calling Worcestershire sauce "English sauce" from now on. thank you
@@WeirdExplorer It certainly is easier to pronounce. 😃
Salsa inglesa is superior
@@WeirdExplorer You're welcome! 😂
I love seafood so I will definitely buy some fish mint and try it for myself.
There are vegan fish sauces, it's pretty close to the actual thing in taste and smell. I believe it's mostly pineapple juice. For your papaya salad, you're missing some chilies, peanuts, and spearmints.
🤔...Can anyone imagine brewing coffee with this? Mixing the leaf into the ground beans?
🤔 And what about teas?...
I make a tea in the video. It had a surprising result!
Like one of my favorite quotes from Twin Peaks: "There's a fish in the percolator!"
@@Erics_TH-cam_Handle that's not damn fine... not damn fine at all
I have this growing in my garden here in Oregon cause a sweet old lady gave it to me. Said "it's easy to grow and has a pretty flower" it's TRUE, it's way to easy to grow, so much so it spreads everywhere. I have a variegated variety that has pink and white stripes as well. It's so smelly that nothing eats it either, no bugs either lol.
love both these channels dearly. I can't wait to try and grow this shit
I’d recommend keeping it in a container if you grow it. It gets beyond out of control if you let it run!
I've been using seaweeds for the fishy flavor in my vegan fish substituted but I do like the sound of something I can grow in my own garden.
I mean, I'm gonna farm some seaweed one of these days but that'll take more effort.
Thank you for the great content. I explored the website that sells this product but could not find the plant using variants of its name described in the video. Do you think the site has discontinued sales until spring?
My SE Asian friends and family love this and eat it in large quantities. I think it tastes terrible, but it is an attractive plant and a hilarious thing to show off to anyone touring the garden.
I make a vegan stir-fry with mushroom Plant, Fish plant and Chinese chives as my "herbal greens" and its glorious
Oooooh man these used to grow everywhere near a nature reserve i used to visit.
I see more recipes using the root than the leaf; curious to see a comparison of leaf and root.
i have a bunch of these in my backyard and we boil it with dried date to make a drink
I'm strange I enjoy fish mint leaf salads, 😆 I still eat fish tho .
I’ve seen this growing in a garden here in Sydney and recall the fishy smell my hand had from handling the leaf.
Definitely not a fan of ‘Fishy’ flavour but can eat pan fried salmon or freshly caught fish from the surf cooked and eaten within an hour occasionally.
Just read that myrcene is one of the major components and that is a citrusy component that's in thyme, hops, lemon grass, verbena and cannabis among others.
Ditto for ocimene citrusy and in similar plants.
Proof that any thing can exist in nature.
Hmm. Might be a good replacement if you're trying to make a vegan version of a recipe that requires anchovies or fish sauce. Interesting!