To make a veg curry, you can also use pan-fried tofu cubes. (I’ve done this and it is seriously YUM 🤤.) Or eliminate the protein all together and just go to town on with all sorts of veggies!👌 Substitute with a 2-3 TSP of low sodium soy sauce. (I’m not veg, but this is my go-to method when I’ve run out of fish sauce! It works like a charm since soy sauce is salty and has an umami factor – two major taste elements of fish sauce.)

While my go-to store-bought paste has been Mae Ploy for years, and I have used many other brands in the past, I've never really compared them side by side or paid close attention to the subtle differences. So, to really find out what is the best brand (at least according to me), a blind taste test is called for.

Green Curry Paste, Mae Ploy brand, 14 oz

More of a video person? Watch the Curry Paste Tasting Video here, complete with my live reaction! How I Chose the Brands for Review Although I’ve made green curry paste from scratch several times before (thanks to some training from Thai cooking classes in Bangkok –🙏), these days I prefer to use a readymade curry paste because it saves time and works just perfectly fine.

I use Mae Ploy’s Green Curry Paste because I find it to be more flavorful than other brands such as Thai Kitchen and De Siam. I should also add that it’s a bit spicier than most other brands, including the aforementioned two. So if you’re not big on heat, use 1-2 tablespoons of paste first, do a taste test and add more paste if you feel the curry could do with more flavor and/or heat. May Ploy’s Green Curry Paste While both Phongchanok and Hong are working on their own lines of curry paste, there are also some favorites, found both online and in most Asian grocery stores, that many of us Thai home cooks love to use:

Thai Green Curry Salmon and Wild Rice

But I have a super soft spot for Thai green curry because of its killer sweet fragrance and the fact that it’s spicier than most other Thai curries. 😍 WHAT IS THAI GREEN CURRY? Not kidding in the slightest here, and 👆 is probably an understatement. Especially since not a single week goes by without some sort Thai food in my life – be it takeaway on my day off, or a home-cooked concoction!