!LOL It sounds so familiar. @rarej lets me open up the shutters and makes me drink some water. At my mom's I stayed in my bedroom whenever that happened.

I don't know if you guys have ever used shrimp paste - we call it trassie here - but I just thought about it when I read your experience. In Suriname it's not that much of an issue because we have enough space, but an aunt in the Netherlands cooked with it in her apartment and the whole building smelled like dead fish she told us 🤣.