Guest Posted May 26, 2001 Report Share Posted May 26, 2001 anyone know how can i say " Nam Prik" in english? It make from chillies and spices and some ingredients for making curry and eat with vegetables...any words easier than this? BL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falang Posted May 26, 2001 Report Share Posted May 26, 2001 Is this the one who is sweet with lot of chillies flake in it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 27, 2001 Report Share Posted May 27, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Falang: Is this the one who is sweet with lot of chillies flake in it? yes something like that...but most of " Nam Prik " is not sweet...it taste very hot ,salt,sour...mmm savory! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brink15 Posted May 27, 2001 Report Share Posted May 27, 2001 BL, That's easy. Nam prik in English is chilli paste. In the US the commercial versions of things like Nam Prik Kapi are advertised as chilli paste w/ shrimp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adikgede Posted May 27, 2001 Report Share Posted May 27, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Bikini_Line: anyone know how can i say " Nam Prik" in english? It make from chillies and spices and some ingredients for making curry and eat with vegetables...any words easier than this? Â BL And if they don't know what shrimp paste is just ask for MSG with essence of sun baked amphibious cockroach paste Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 27, 2001 Report Share Posted May 27, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Adik Gede: And if they don't know what shrimp paste is just ask for MSG with essence of sun baked amphibious cockroach paste Have you ate that before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adikgede Posted May 27, 2001 Report Share Posted May 27, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Bikini_Line: Have you ate that before? Well I have had fried cockroaches before when I was exploring the frozen foods section of a Lao market in San Francisco with a Khmer friend. His girlfriend insisted that cockroaches could be substituted for shrimp when making shrimp paste, and our blind taste tests seemed to confirm it. Ever since then I think I have become sensatised to shrimp paste. While I accept that life would not be possible without it, at least in South East Asia. My basic instinct is that when you kill something you should eat it quickly lest it wake up and kill you back. My other favourite food is salted fish which to me smells like a rotting corpse. Before you ask I have never eaten a rotting corpse, that I know of, but I have smelled one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 27, 2001 Report Share Posted May 27, 2001 If you ask for nam pric in Thailand you will get fish sauce with sliced hot peppers in it. Fish sauce is not really a sauce, but rather a very salty liquid that has been used for fermenting fish. It does smell bad, but is to a Thai what salt is to a farang. It is amber in color. Gary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brink15 Posted May 27, 2001 Report Share Posted May 27, 2001 Gary, If you ask for nam prik and they bring you prik nam pla (fish sauce with chillies) the person who took your order didn't understand you. Just had my fill of various nam priks in April in the LOS, my favorite is nam prik ohm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 27, 2001 Report Share Posted May 27, 2001 Sometimes the table doesn't have the bottle of nam plah on it and I guess they just assume I want salt. As long as they don't bring me pahlah, I'll be happy. Never have I smelled anything as vile as that stuff. I don't have anything to even compare it with. Gary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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