{"id":1167,"date":"2008-11-20T12:14:13","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T19:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2011-12-24T17:37:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T00:37:45","slug":"fish-wednesday-prawn-pad-thai-take-iii-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/20\/fish-wednesday-prawn-pad-thai-take-iii-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish Wednesday: Prawn Pad Thai Take III Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fish sauce is unpleasant stuff, smelly and weird, but without it, you can’t really get the right flavor to your home made Thai or Vietnamese food. We bought one bottle of the stuff which we threw out immediately upon opening it – it was beyond weird and smelly, it was downright nasty and there was no way I was putting it in my food. The next bottle we got proved more palatable, if you can call fish sauce palatable on its own. It really is essential, though, it adds whatever that flavor is to your food that makes it taste like The Real Thing.<\/p>\n

I’m still toying with Pad Thai recipes, I haven’t found one that works for me 100%. Some recipes call for ketchup, some for loads of Sri Racha (hot sauce), some for tamarind… Last night’s came from The Noodle Shop Cookbook<\/a>\"\", but it was amended slightly by me – my notes say to replace the ketchup with tamarind and to go crazy with the lime. I still ended up a little short on the sauce and I should have used the little ready cooked shrimp instead of the Gulf prawns, but they looked so appealing in the seafood case.<\/p>\n

We have loads of Asian supermarkets here. I’m torn between two of them, the lush Uwajimaya that has vast quantities of beautifully stacked groceries or the ramshackle (and always freezing cold) Viet Wah where the items are a bit more mysterious, the market a bit more like being in Vietnam. At Viet Wah you can buy fresh rice noodles, at Uwajimaya you can get fresh spinach noodles, it’s not a six of one, half a dozen of the other situation. I could not find the ginger candies that I love at Uwajimaya but they don’t seem to have the ginger cookies that make me crazy at Viet Wah.<\/p>\n

I’m a fan of supermarkets as adventure, I always love to go grocery shopping overseas and here in Seattle we’re lucky to have a nice variety of ethic grocery stores. Mystery produce is always fun, mystery meat has a slightly terrifying edge to this vegetarian inclined eater, and I get a ridiculous amount of glee from finding things in cans that I can not identify.<\/p>\n

Eat your fish. It makes everything more interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fish sauce is unpleasant stuff, smelly and weird, but without it, you can’t really get the right flavor to your home made Thai or Vietnamese food. We bought one bottle of the stuff which we threw out immediately upon opening it – it was beyond weird and smelly, it was downright nasty and there was … <\/p>\n


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