These are very moorish, traditionally they can be made with chopped French beans instead of spring onions and served with a Thai chilli sauce with its sweet and hot tones. CookeryClub offer recipes for both red curry paste and chilli sauce....

These are divine served with a Thai sweet chilli sauce, serve heaps of them for a starter or as part of a hot buffet or canapé. Use any white fish and you can use frozen defrosted prawns or raw peeled prawns. Quaintly different to "Thai Fish Cakes" ...

I once had a variation of these in the Blue Print Café in London and they were so scrumptious I went back the next week for some more. Mussels are lovely just cooked down with a little garlic and onion, a glass of wine and some cream- served with chips and mayonnaise – oh” Mussel...

Mirin is a sweet Sake and Sake is a rice wine, drunk to accompany Japanese food hot or cold, but also used in dips and marinades - found in ethnic shops and some supermarkets...