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cdh

cdh

I know in a Thai cooking class I took while on vacation in Thailand a long time ago, every time shrimp paste was used, it got wrapped in a little square of tin foil and waved over the fire for a bit.  If that's what you mean by toasting, I don't ever recall an instance where it wasn't done.  No idea if the toast/no-toast is a cultural difference between Malays and Thais, or if the Malays are also toast-always people.  It's been a long time and I've never really played with shrimp paste since, so I have no ideas how different the toasted flavor is from the untoasted.

cdh

cdh

I know in a Thai cooking class I took while on vacation in Thailand a long time ago, every time shrimp paste was used, it got wrapped in a little square of tin foil and waved over the fire for a bit.  If that's what you mean by toasting, I don't ever recall an instance where it wasn't done.  No idea if the toast/no-toast is a cultural difference between Malays and Thais, or if the Malays are also toast-always people.  It's been a long time and I've never really played with shrimp paste, so I have no ideas how different the toasted flavor is from the untoasted.

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