Fish Sauce: Condiment and Weapon of Choice

When a liquor store owner beats up a robber with a bottle, it fills that valuable column space for any local newshound. When a bottle of Cambodian fish sauce is involved, prepare for syndication. The Eagle Tribune is there.

“I just grabbed him tight and held the gun down,” Vannarith, a Lowell resident, said in an interview a short while afterwards. Vannarith’s son joined in the fray, and together they knocked the suspect to the ground. They grabbed a bottle of fish sauce and beat the man, Vannarith said.

It was their only bottle of fish sauce, Vannarith added while cleaning up the mess caused by the fight.

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