Fish head curry
Singapore · Southeast Asia
- Short description
- This shared-table curry is bold, sour-spicy, and built around the gelatinous cheeks and collar of the fish head.
- Ingredients
- Fish head, curry leaves, chile powder, turmeric, tamarind, coconut milk or stock, okra, eggplant, tomatoes, onions, garlic, and ginger.
- Cultural note
- It is associated with banana-leaf restaurants and family-style meals where the curry is spooned over rice.
- Common misconception
- The fish head is not just for flavoring broth; diners prize the cheek, collar, and tender pieces around the bones.
image credit
Fish Head Curry at Banana Leaf Apolo.jpg
- creator:
- JB Macatulad
- source:
- Wikimedia Commons
- license:
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- modified:
- Copied from Wikimedia Commons and center-cropped/resized/re-encoded for Gochizu; no other edits.
audio credit
- voice:
- marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
- source:
- OpenAI API Text to Speech
- license:
- OpenAI API generated audio
- modified:
- AI-generated voice audio.