This dish is one of the South’s best known specialties, my mom loves it! It is an acquired taste for most people from outside the region, even myself didn’t like this intensely pungent curry fish when I was a kid. Two years ago my friend who is from Bangkok took me to lunch and ordered this curry which is her favorite Southern dish, I tried it again and since then I think this dish is a star of Southern Thailand – unique taste and flavourful.
The ingredients are a combination of fish viscera, grilled fish, fermented shrimp paste, pumpkin, string beans and bamboo shoots.