Nampu is an old time Lanna dish. It is used as an ingredient in many kinds of northern dishes just like shrimp paste. Nampu is usually made in the rainy season or the rice planting time. Nampu is usually added to green chili paste to make nam phrik pu or it is added to yam no mai, Kaeng no mai (bamboo salad, bamboo soup), tam som o, tam krathon (pomelo or santhon salad) (Rattana Phromphichai, 1999, p. 3247; Sumalee Thabun, personal communication, June 27, 2007) |