12/17/2022
Pla Laah - fermented fresh water fishes was my favorite growing up. It was impossible to find in the United States 30 years ago.
P’ Urai - our family nanny who helped raising my siblings and cousins usually bought me lunch from a Laoktian street vendor “ Kaeng Lao “ ( Laotian vegetable soup seasoned with this “ Pla Laah “ and “ Som Tum Pla Laah “ ( Thai green papaya salad which usually is seasoned with fish sauce but in Issan - Eastern Region of Thailand - they widely use “ Pla Laah “ as seasoning.
Nowadays you may find pasteurized bottled pla laah in some Asian markets in USA.