Food and drinkshrimp paste noun
- gà low
- bpì low
- Low: flat and lower than your normal voice, dropping a little at the end.
How to use it
Tiny shrimp fermented with salt and pounded into a dark, pungent paste. A little goes into most curry pastes, and it's the base of น้ำพริกกะปิnáam-prík gà-bpì, the chilli dip eaten with fresh vegetables and fried mackerel, ปลาทูbplaa-tuu. ข้าวคลุกกะปิkâao klúk gà-bpì is rice tossed with shrimp paste and topped with sweet pork, green mango and omelette.
It's not vegetarian, even when a dish looks it.
Other spellings you'll see
There's no single official way to write Thai in English letters. We mark the tone of every syllable; online you'll also find:
- kapi
- ka pi
- gapi
- ka-pi
More food and drink in Thai
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- ข้าวเหนียวมะม่วง kâao-nǐaw má-mûang Mango sticky rice
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