Key facts
- Alternative names
- Prawn sauce , Shrimp sauce (non-solid varieties)
- Type
- Condiment
- Place of origin
- Continental Southeast Asia
- Region or state
- Southeast Asia , Southern China
- Created by
- Cham and Mon people
- Main ingredients
- shrimp or krill and salt
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Alternative Chinese name Traditional Chinese蝦膎 Simplified Chinese虾膎
Second alternative Chinese name Traditional Chinese鹹蝦醬 Simplified Chinese咸虾酱
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “shrimp paste” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.