12/18/2023 0 Comments Kosher tamarind paste![]() I decided to brave it out and bought a bottle in Israel recommended to me by the local store owner to see how it would go. Fast forward to my trip to Thailand and one of the key ingredients that the cooking school told me in advance to bring was, of course, fish sauce. When I moved to Israel I actually found kosher fish sauce readily available, but I had been so traumatized by my last experience with it that I didn’t even attempt to experiment. So I settled on my old pad Thai recipe and made it often, since we really enjoyed it. It was too overwhelming for someone who not used to this flavor palette (and I only used a tsp, by the way). ![]() Now, some people like this brand of fish sauce, so it just must have not been my taste. I could barely manage one bite and my husband wouldn’t even try it we threw the rest out. I sucked it up anyways and assumed it would taste better then it smelled, as so many people are obsessed with it, so it had to be good, right? Wrong. One problem: I immediately started gagging the moment I opened the bottle of fish sauce! The smell was beyond terrible. How was I to know any better? A couple of years later, a kosher fish sauce came out on the market in the US and I was so excited to cook and taste an authentic Pad Thai. What came out was a really delicious noodle dish. It was quite a while ago actually, and I could not find kosher fish sauce - the key ingredient - anywhere, so I searched instead for a vegan recipe. I remember the first time I attempted to make pad Thai. I feel like pad Thai is a staple in many restaurants, even those not claiming to be Thai cuisine. ![]() I never before tried to make any of the recipes I learned in Thailand except for one: Pad Thai. And we’re back with another dish I learned to make while in Thailand! ![]()
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