On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 05:38:00AM -0700, Rael64 wrote: > My guess would be that it is either old and thus dry, or more likely > (hopefully, eh?) one is expected to "thin it out" with fish sauce, > lime, or even just water, sort of like reconstituting it. Well, I found the answer (or more to the point, I went to Thai Market and asked). The two varieties I got are both intended to be added to rice. I'm a bit foggy on when/how you add it (when I left I thought I had a clear grasp on that...and I might have...but it's gone now). There are types of nam prik that are less dry (he pointed them out), but just from looking at them, I couldn't tell the difference. Oh well.... Later, --jim -- 73 DE N5IAL (/4) | Peter da Silva: No, try "rm -rf /" spooky130u@gmail.com | Dave Aronson: As your life flashes before < Running FreeBSD 7.0 > | your eyes, in the unit of time known as an ICBM / Hurricane: | ohnosecond.... (alt.sysadmin.recovery) 30.39735N 86.60439W |