Pam Real Thai Oxtail Soup. Pam Real Thai opened in 2001 and closed in 2020.
Came across these Thai curry paste taste-offs and thought I’d share.
Her top rankings (Mae Ploy, Aroy-D, Namjai) all have shrimp paste (I haven’t come across Aroy-D without it yet), and I often cook for vegetarians so Maesri is what I prefer to stock (and adjust with fish sauce for the meat eaters).
I used to buy Mae Ploy, but between the huge size of the jar (Maesri comes in small cans too) and the shrimp paste, I switched.
Thai kitchen has almost no flavor. Such a waste.
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I seem to remember Thai Kitchen red curry paste tasting better 8 years ago. I agree it has no taste right now.
I’ll have to try some other curry pastes.
I have liked some deSIAM Thai curry kits.
My friend used Mae Ploy green curry paste, which wasn’t to my taste.
I think I might not have eaten enough Thai food back then to discern, so maybe it tasted fine, and now I want more flavor 
(I bought cans of Maesri red & green again because the giant jar of Penang paste has taken soooooo long to work through.)
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