Ok is cooking meat (fish) and chili paste with only a little water in a pot or wrapping the mixture in banana leaves and cooking in a pot with only a little water. It is usually used with easy to cook ingredients like eggs, fish, eggplants, and is named accordingly: Ok khai (Khai pam, or pam khai), Ok pla, and Ok bakhuea. Small size fish is recommended as it will cook quickly. (Rattana Phromphichai, 1999, p. 7832-7833; Sirawit Chamrat, personal communication, April 25, 2007)