[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by concretegurl

never had the chinese kind-but i will have to try it now!

Yep fish sauce, shrimp paste nam powder i think it's like 3 kinds of fish sauce in the hmong kind and only one in the vietnamese and thai-they're all like variations i'm partial to the hmong style it's the first i had and the one i got hooked on i was stoked when we went to a thai vietnamese restaurant locally (thai wife vietnamese husband owned a restaurant) and they had their variations there.

I buy the premade bags from the hmong stores here which are ironically owned by hmong people and they call them lao stores (laotian market).

I totally bough a motor and pestol to make it-i have to make it in the back yard or everyone here complains about the smell!
I just added my own pickled stuff i make also on the side to be like go with it dishes i also make sticky rice to make it a meal. Rarely i make some boiled hmong style chicken hold the cilantro because t-i hate cilantro so much i might as well be allergic to ibut i only make that when other people are going to eat it which is like never now.

omg! I freakin hate cilantro too! Omg bff's!