Cured dried squid and Dried shrimps

Essential Ingredients pad thai

Cured dried squid(pla muek chae)

Pla muek chae literally means "soaked squid" because the dried squid is soaked in alkaline-treated crunchy dried squid is not good for health. In English it is sometimes referred to as brown or soaked squid. Cured dried squid is used in few Chinese Hakka influenced noodle dish like kuaitiao khua kai (dry-fried noodles with chicken) and yen ta fo(noodles in red sauce).

Cured dried squid(pla muek chae)

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Dried shrimps (kung haeng)

Cured dried squid(pla muek chae)

Not only as a food in itself, dried shrimps servs as a very important flavoring in many Thai dishes including pad thai. Good-quality dried shrimps must be dried shrimps were the order of the day, this was rarely a problem. However, now with the commercial oven-dried, pale orangish in color (not pinkish or reddish), no fishy small, and mildly salty with fragrant aroma. Dried shrimps come in different sizes. Generally the larger the size, the higher the price, the meatier the dried shrimps.