'Funky' aroma but great taste?

I use trassi in Indonesian cooking, which I do think meets the definition of funky. It's fermented shrimp paste, so it has a very particular smell. I love it, but that's because I associate it with great food and I've known that smell all my life. It's not for everyone however.
Now that you mention trassi, I've just remembered another wonderful funky flavour: Chinese tau si (fermented black beans)
Yes please to trassi & fermented black beans :hungry:
I think i've told this before, this one time a friend of mine is visiting and before I can do anything, he's opening all jars etc and sniffing the content
He got a bit of a fright.
Fish sauce, oyser sauce, black bean paste, shrimp paste, worcesterhire sauce etc....
 
Now that you mention trassi, I've just remembered another wonderful funky flavour: Chinese tau si (fermented black beans)
The miso family is also wonderful funky. Katsuobushi/shaved bonito, too.

Consider Worcestershire sauce. Vinegar and pepper temper the funkiness but anchovies form the base.

Is vinegar the counter-funk? :chef:
 
Vets here (where I live) usually expect owners to express their dogs’ anal glads - it’s not difficult, just stinky and potentially messy.

They’ll do it in a pinch ( :laugh: ), but they charge a relatively stiff fee, considering the job, if they think you can do it yourself.

Believe me, after doing it once, I had to go back and kick the ol’ Tasty charm into overdrive in order to get one of the techs there to do it for me. :laugh:
It was a practice ditched here long ago because they say it's natural and a potential cause of anal gland damage.
IDK.
I just know every now and then I shout HEY NO SCOOTING IN HERE 😆
 
Yes please to trassi & fermented black beans :hungry:
I think i've told this before, this one time a friend of mine is visiting and before I can do anything, he's opening all jars etc and sniffing the content
He got a bit of a fright.
Fish sauce, oyser sauce, black bean paste, shrimp paste, worcesterhire sauce etc....
Wow, how good of friends were you? I would be highly irritated if someone I knew, even family, came into my kitchen pantry and refrigerator and started inspecting my food stuffs. I can't think of anyone who could do that without me getting highly annoyed!
 
Wow, how good of friends were you? I would be highly irritated if someone I knew, even family, came into my kitchen pantry and refrigerator and started inspecting my food stuffs. I can't think of anyone who could do that without me getting highly annoyed!
I knew what was going to happen, so I just had a giggle :)
 
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