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  <title>Blend Your Own Vietnamese Dipping Sauce</title>
  <published_at>Wed Jun 10 16:51:00 -0700 2009</published_at>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <short_description>It's not just fish sauce</short_description>
  <long_description>It's not just fish sauce.</long_description>
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Anne Le, co-owner of <a href="http://www.chow.com/places/747">Tamarine</a> restaurant in Palo Alto, California (and former co-owner of <a href="http://www.chow.com/places/5882">Bong Su</a> in San Francisco), makes <a href="/recipes/26078">Vietnamese dipping sauce</a> by combining fish sauce, sugar, lime juice, vinegar, and sambal chile paste. Also follow Le&#8217;s sage counsel on <a href="/stories/11696">how to soften the rice paper</a> for <a href="http://www.chow.com/recipes/26079">spring rolls</a>, <a href="/stories/11698">how to assemble them</a>, and <a href="/stories/11697">how to keep them fresh</a>.

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