Lanna people often drop the cluster "r" sound when pronouncing "nam phrik ", so the word becomes "nam phik". The main ingredients for this chili sauce or dip are chilies, salt, shallots, garlic and other additional things such as shrimp paste, dried soybean slabs, fermented fish, tomatoes, galangal, lemon grass. The ingredients are pounded together in a mortar like namphrik num, namphrik kop, namphrik pla. (Rattana Phromphichai, 1999, p. 3247; Sirawit Chamrat, personal communication, April 20, 2007; Siriphon Prongkham, personal communication, June 20, 2007) |