Spicy Fish Cakes

Tod Man Plah Grai

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Preparation info
  • Yield:

    24

    pieces
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Southeast Asian Flavors: Adventures in Cooking the Foods of Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia & Singapore

By Robert Danhi

Published 2008

  • About

Small curry spiked fish cakes are a common appetizer and street-food in Thailand. The small misshapen bouncy fish cakes are addictively good as they get dipped in Thai sweet chili sauce and the cucumber relish. I remember sitting by the Udompasat Dam along the river, watching catfish the size of my suitcase being reeled in one after the other. That day, my host “Noi” and his wife, “Saa” at Gayson Restaurant, crafted fish