Homemade Veggie Fish Sauce

Description
So, I've noticed that a lot of asian dishes call for fish sauce, and if you're a true vegetarian like me you always feel like that puts the recipe just out of reach. I've come up with my own vegetarian fish sauce and I think it's 99% close the real thing.

I based the main part of it off the Wikipedia Vegetarian Fish Sauce recipe, but I felt the recipe there lacked a few things which put it into the realm of "tastes like the real thing" but it's 100% vegetarian.
 * Source: Ms Nadja Dee Witherbee, Seattle WA, benignlives@earthlink.net

Ingredients

 * 2 cups shredded dried seaweed
 * 4 cups water
 * 3 cloves garlic (smashed but not minced)
 * 1½ tbsp whole black peppercorns
 * ½ cup soy sauce
 * 2 tsp lime juice (concentrate OK)
 * 2 tsp lemon juice (concentrate OK)
 * 2 tbsp vinegar
 * 3 tsp sugar
 * 1 tsp ground ginger
 * 1 tsp ground garlic
 * ¼ tsp chili powder

Directions

 * 1.
 * 1) In a large bowl, add 2 cups dried seaweed + 4 cups water 2.
 * 2) Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes 3.
 * 3) Add garlic cloves + peppercorns + soy sauce + lime juice + lime juice + vinegar + sugar + ginger + garlic powder + ginger + chili powder 4.
 * 4) Bring to a boil, turn heat down to medium and cook for 30 minutes 5.
 * 5) You can adjust the salt level by adding water 6.
 * 6) Allow to cool 7.
 * 7) Strain into a container.