Pantry guide
Best Shrimp paste for home cooking
What Shrimp paste is for, which kitchens use it, and where to find a jar worth cooking with.
Why cooks start here
Belacan, terasi, kapi — the funk that makes a curry taste like the sea and a village.
In Indonesian and Vietnamese cooking, Shrimp paste is not decoration. Add it where the recipe puts it: early if it needs fat and time, late if it is perfume.
Wrap and toast, or fry in oil, before it hits a curry. Raw, it can bully a pot. Cooked, it disappears into the right kind of depth.
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