fish sauce
nam pla
sauces, pastes & preserves
If there's any one key ingredient to cooking Thai food, it is fish sauce. This is a must buy ingredient. It smells terrible, but taste great. Apparently, the Thais are not the only one who use fish sauce -- the Roman used fish sauce as well. Fish sauce is made from small fish and salt fermented for a long time. The juice is extracted and boiled. Good fish sauce should be clear and brownish in color. In Thailand, Tipparos is the first brand that made it to most people's kitchen - when people stopped making it themselves. Tipparos is the best known brand and you see a lot of other brand which are trying to mimic them with names like "Taperos".
Recipes using fish sauce
Bamboo Shoot Yum
Soop Naw Mai
Shredded bamboo shoots boiled in wild Thai leaves with hot lime sauce.
Basil Eggplant
Pud Makua Yow
Stir fried eggplant with basil and chili pepper.
Beef and Bamboo Shoot Curry
Gang Naw Mai Neuw Sub
Ground beef and bamboo shoot red curry.
Beef Panang
Panang Nua
A dry beef curry, sprinkled with kaffir lime leaves
Chicken Basil
Gai Pad Gra Pow
Ground chicken stir fried with Thai basil
Chicken Curry
Gang Gai
Chicken and Thai eggplant in red curry
Chicken in Coconut Soup
Gai Tom Kha
Galangal flavored coconut soup. Sour and hot broth.
Chicken Stock
Nam Gang
Simple chicken broth
Chili Fish Sauce
Nam Pla Prig
Chinese Chive Flowers with Shrimp
Pud Dok Gui Chai
Stir fried Chinese chive flowers with shrimp
Chinese Olive Fried Rice
Kow Pad Nam Leab
Exotic Chinese olive fried rice
Chinese Water Spinach Curry
Gang Tay Po
Chinese water spinach stewed in curry sauce with pork
Clams in Hot Basil
Hoy Pad Prig
Manila clams in spicy basil sauce.
Crispy Catfish Green Mango Salad
Yum Pla Dook Foo
Sour unripe mango, biting lime, salty fish sauce and crisped catfish.
Cucumber Salad
Yum Tang Gua
Sliced cucumber, tomato, onion dressed in Thai sauce
Curried Noodles
Goew Tiew Kak
Rice noodles in beef curry sauce
Egg Noodles with Barbeque Pork
Ba Mee Moo Dang
Chinese egg noodles with barbequed pork
Fried Fish with Tamarind Sauce
Pla Rad Prig
Whole fish pan fried and served with spicy tamarind sauce
Fried Rice
Kow Pad
Thai style fried rice
Giant Noodle Roll Sauce
Nam Jim Goi Tiew Lohd
Ginger and Chicken Stir Fry
Gai Pud King
Stir fried chicken with julienned ginger and wood ear mushrooms.
Green Beans and Shrimp
Pad Prig King
Dried curry green beans with shrimp
Green Papaya Salad
Som Tum
Shreded green papaya, cherry tomatoes, green beans with lime dressing
Grilled Pork
Moo Ping
Grilled pork on skewers
Hot Shallot Sauce with Toasted Rice
Prig Nam Jim
Laab
Larb
Spicy ground pork or chicken salad cooked in lime juice, chili pepper and fish sauce
Mackerel with Chili Sauce
Nam Prig Pla Tuu
Mackerel and fresh vegetables with a shrimp paste sauce.
Mushroom Tom Yum
Tom Yum Hed
Spicy and sour oyster mushroom soup with lemon grass broth
Namya
Namya
Pad Thai
Pad Thai
Stir fried rice noodles with chives, bean sprouts and shrimp.
Peanut Sauce for Satay
Nam Jim Satay
Spicy Vegetable Soup
Gang Leang
Clear, spicy vegetable soup
Steak Salad
Yum Nua
Spicy beef salad in lime juice, hot pepper and fish sauce
Steamed Curried Fish
Haw Moak
Steamed, marinaded fish in curry paste and coconut milk on vegetables.
Stinky Beans and Shrimp
Pud Ped Sataw
Stinky beans stir fried in red curry paste with shrimp
Stir fried Pumpkin
Pud Fug Tong
Squash stir fried with garlic and pepper.
Sweet and Sour Tamarind Sauce
Nam Pla Waan
Sweet and sour sauce, made from palm sugar and tamarind.
Tom Yum Goong
Tom Yum Goong
Shrimp in clear soup made from lemon grass, kaffir lime, hot pepper, lime juice and fish sauce
Tropical Yum Sauce
Yum Sausage
Yum Moo Yaw
Pork sausage salad served hot or cold