Does shrimp paste smell disgusting and repulsive to the people who eat it? or just the people who smell it?

Question

and dont eat it?

Answer 1

The more disgusting the smell of the shrimp paste, the better! Saute' it first with lots of garlic and chili. Good for green mangoes and kare-kare, yum yum!

Answer 2

It smells disgusting and repulsive to both - to the one who eats it and the one who smells it.  The difference in your case is that, you are used to its smell while the other party does not hence the complaint of its disgusting odor.  You have tasted it and it isn't like something rotten or rotting.  On the contrary, the smell has nothing to do with how super delicious it tastes like, specially if fried with garlic and onions.  Hmmm... Not all that smells good tastes good.  In like manner, not all that smells bad tastes bad. Take for example dried fish.  It smells bad, too but it tastes good to our palate because we are used to it.

Answer 3

hahahha.. i ask my self the same question.. well when u mix it with food then it taste ok.. im allergic 2 it.. hate it now but i use 2 eat it.. and the smell was bad.. i hated the smell but when put in food its different

Answer 4

All seafood stinks like dead fish because thats what it is.  Why do people eat it?  Probably the same reason people drink Scotch. YECHHH

Answer 5

It is an ACQUIRED taste.  

Does it reek?  Heck YEAH.  It is good? It depends on how you cook it or how you prepare it.  Does it drive people away?  To some it will but those that has acquired the taste and love it, they will assent.   Yummy.  

Answer 6

1. All fishes smell and taste bad before you cook it. the shrimps would not taste bad or smell bad unless you first at least boil it and the make it as a paste.

2. Yes. Because when you smell something some of the smell molecules land on your tongue as the pipes (nasal and mouth) are connected, and the thing tastes bad in your mind.