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Pindang: The Southern Sumatran Sour-Spiced Fish Soup

Overview

Pindang — from Palembang (South Sumatra) — is the acid-forward counterpart to the coconut-rich gulai. Where gulai is rich and golden, pindang is light, sour, and clean — a clear or lightly coloured broth flavoured with tamarind, galangal, chilli, lemongrass, and turmeric, with fish (often patin, a Sumatran river catfish) or egg as the protein. It is the South Sumatran equivalent of Vietnamese canh chua (sour fish soup) — the same bright, tamarind-forward, herb-rich broth philosophy.

Source

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Cross-Cuisine Parallels

Vietnamese canh chua (same sour-fish-soup tradition), Thai tom yam (same sour-hot-aromatic broth — but tom yam uses lime acid where pindang uses tamarind), Filipino sinigang (same tamarind-sour soup —