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The Red Boat voyage – how a systems engineer became an artisanal fish sauce-maker

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Portrait of Cuong Pham, founder of Red Boat Fish Sauce taken on November 16, 2023. 

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Interview with Cuong Pham, founder of Red Boat Fish Sauce

Mr Cuong Pham, founder of Red Boat Fish Sauce, sells one million litres of his sauce a year.

ST PHOTO: CHONG JUN LIANG

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SINGAPORE – He had the recipes from his mother, cobbled together via long-distance phone calls. He had all the produce he needed in California, where he had settled.

Yet, Mr Cuong Pham could never quite nail the taste of his mother’s home cooking.

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