Chin som or naem can be made from pork, beef or buffalo meat and named chin som mu, chin som ngua and chin som kang respectively. Sometimes the pork kind is referred to as “mu som”. it can be eaten by itself with rice when grilled on a low fire as “chin som mok”. It can also be mixed with other ingredients to make such dishes as khua chin som, sai khai (with eggs), chio phak plang and khua fak pheka on. (Udom Rungruengsi, 1999, p. 1879; Saowapha Thakaew, personal communication, July 2, 2007)