Nittaya

Nittaya Curry Paste Trio

3 × 100 g

฿590

Red, green and khao soi from the Chiang Mai market stall everyone buys from.

Nittaya is a stall in Chiang Mai that supplies half the restaurants in the city. The pastes are pounded, not blitzed, and you can see the fibre.

The khao soi paste is the reason to buy the set — the northern curry noodle is nearly impossible to build from scratch abroad.

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