Son Fish Sauce
Son Fish Sauce

More thanfish sauce.

Every meal made at home is an act of care.

Watch the first press

Touch the surface. Then come cook with us.

SINCE 1951 · PHÚ QUỐC ISLAND, VIỆT NAM · 2 CORE INGREDIENTS · 12-MONTH FERMENT

Why we exist

We believe the best meals aren’t delivered — they’re made with care. Son exists to bring people back to the home table: honest ingredients, timeless traditions, and the small everyday ritual of feeding the people you love.

Simple ingredients. Honest cooking. Better moments.

We grew up with delivery apps.Time to cook again.

$118

— what the average American spends on delivery every month.* One bottle of Son lasts longer than that.

* Empower, 2024

Nobody taught us to cook. The apps were faster — until they weren’t: fees, sog, silence at the table. Cooking with nước mắm isn’t a skill you’re missing. It’s a ratio, a pan, and twenty minutes. We’ll show you.

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An Asian family sharing breakfast together at the home table
Stop-motion of the making: American anchovies on ice, a basket of sea salt, then the wooden vats they ferment in
Wild American anchovies, sea salt, and the wooden vats they wait in — the making, frame by frame.

One bottle,many dishes.

  • AMERICAN ANCHOVIES + SEA SALT + TIME
  • NO PRESERVATIVES
  • NO SHORTCUTS
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From our table

All recipes →
  • A bowl of nước chấm — amber, flecked with shredded carrot — beside a plate of nem rán

    NƯỚC CHẤM

    The Mother Sauce

    Bright · Balanced · Everywhere

    5 minFirst meal
  • Pork belly braised to a dark lacquer in caramel and fish sauce, in a shallow clay dish

    THỊT KHO TRỨNG

    Caramel Pork & Eggs

    Lacquered · Deep · Sunday

    90 minWeekend
  • Chicken braised in a glossy caramel sauce, potatoes alongside, on a white plate

    GÀ KHO GỪNG

    Ginger Caramel Chicken

    Glossy · Gingered · Weeknight

    30 minEasy
  • Noodles tossed glossy with scallions in a blue-and-white bowl — the late bowl

    SCALLION BUTTER NOODLES

    The 11 PM Bowl

    Silky · Caramel · Comfort

    25 minWeeknight
“Exceptionally good — among the best I’ve tasted from Vietnam.”
— Andrea Nguyen, Viet World Kitchen

Rated 5 out of 5 stars.

“Really excellent fish sauce — I wish I’d bought two bottles.”
B. Saunders, Amazon

Rated 5 out of 5 stars.

“You can tell it’s different — it doesn’t stink and it’s not overwhelmingly salty. Highly recommend.”
Amazon verified purchase, diaspora home cook

Rated 5 out of 5 stars.

“Clean and pure — it gives my dishes that special something.”
Amazon verified purchase, professional cook
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One bottle. One recipe. One table, tonight.

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