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Eleni Roussos

The underground world of blachan in the Northern Territory where recipes are top secret

Mark Motlop has been making blachan all his life. (ABC News: Hamish Harty)

A drive out of Darwin and into the heart of the city's suburbia, a peculiar smell drifts out of a home and it's drawing in the flies.

"It's like a real dead fishy smell," said Mark Motlop, who cooks the spicy condiment, blachan, from his home in Wulagi.

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