Fish Satays

Preparation info
  • makes

    8

    skewers
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
New Wave Asian: A Guide to the Southeast Asian Food Revolution

By Sri Owen

Published 2002

  • About

Fish is the real staple food of Southeast Asia. Seafood, river fish and shrimps, fish from lakes and fish reared in domestic ponds – there are fish everywhere, and the ways of cooking them are limitless. This satay is made from fish fillets, which nowadays, especially in the West, are all cleaned and prepared ready to cook. In many Asian markets I have watched fish, large and small, jumping or thrashing about in buckets or on trays of iced water while they wait their turn to be killed, clea