Definition of "ngapi" in Englisch

noun

1. (cooking) A pungent Burmese condiment made from fermented and compressed fish or shrimp paste.

   • The rivers and lakes abound with fish, from which the inhabitants prepare their favourite condiment of ngapee.
   • Travellers on the steamers of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company are wont to rail in no measured terms at the fish-paste which forms an invariable and obtrusively evident part of the cargo, yet no Burman would think a dinner complete without his modicum of nga-pee, and it is a noteworthy fact that one form of the condiment is of frequent appearance on English dinner-tables in the East, under the name of balachong, a term borrowed from the Straits Settlements, but which designates nothing more nor less than a specially prepared variety of nga-pee.