Mixed freshwater fish are soaked, repeatedly washed, salted and packed with toasted ground paddy rice; the creator gives a 1.5 kg fish batch and an unmeasured ladle dose.
This creator batch is modern; the video does not establish the food's earliest history or origin.
Ingredients
Scaling: source batch only
Mixed freshwater fishAbout 1.5 kg after washing/draining; exact species shares not weighed.
1.5 kg
Crushed coarse salt350 g per 1.5 kg washed/drained fish; no finished salt concentration stated.
350 g
Paddy rice, roasted, ground and siftedAbout five ladles per 1.5 kg fish; ladle capacity/mass unknown.
5 ladles
Method
Risks and precautions · High risk
Preserved-fish hazards
FDA CPG 540.650 addresses botulism hazards in uneviscerated fish products that are salt-cured, dried or smoked. The captions here describe other or unresolved preparations; whether the guidance applies to this batch has not been established. It is general context, not a batch hazard assessment, control or validation.
Hazard source
Creator statements about flavour, aging time, lack of spoilage or storage life are not validated safety controls. No qualified process review or source-specific critical limits are established.
Scale, head, gut and prepare the mixed fish. Captions name pla mor, pla kradee, pla ta-pien, pla nil, pla chon and pla soi; the species and their shares are not independently verified. (source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdQhxsZ97QU&t=60s; captions 01:00–01:15)
Soak the fish in water for about one to two hours, wash it about five times, then press out water. The creator describes the fish as softening during the soak. (source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdQhxsZ97QU&t=94s; captions 01:34–01:57)
Roast paddy rice until fragrant, grind it and sift it through mesh. Keep the fine fraction; the creator uses about five ladles per 1.5 kg fish, but gives no ladle capacity. (source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdQhxsZ97QU&t=120s; captions 02:00–03:38)
Knead 350 g crushed coarse salt into 1.5 kg of washed, drained fish. The source gives no finished salt concentration. (source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdQhxsZ97QU&t=385s; captions 06:25–07:18)
Mix in about five ladles of toasted ground rice per 1.5 kg fish. (source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdQhxsZ97QU&t=452s; captions 07:32–08:05)
Press the mixture firmly into a jar. Close it with two plastic-bag layers, secure them and place the creator’s weighted bag on top. (source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdQhxsZ97QU&t=498s; captions 08:18–09:10)
Store away from direct sun and flies. The creator reports at least three months, about six months for preferred flavour, and an older one-to-two-year batch; none is a validated limit. (source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdQhxsZ97QU&t=585s; captions 09:45–10:10)
Places
Unknown
Documented preparation · Place not established
Thai caption language does not establish filming location or food origin.
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The creator's source batch and ordered operations are preserved in the structured ingredients and steps. Quantities, measures, storage statements, and gaps remain attributed to that source.
The study describes pla-ra or pa-daek as salty-fermented fish paste used as a multipurpose seasoning in Thailand and Laos and samples products from central, northern and northeastern Thailand and Vientiane, Laos. It does not establish origin or validate this batch.
Accessed 2026-10-26
U.S. Food and Drug AdministrationGeneral hazard context
FDA guidance is scoped to uneviscerated fish products that are salt-cured, dried or smoked. This scope does not establish applicability to the described fermented fish batches or cooked sauce batches and does not validate them or set their controls.