He serves the dish with a simply made tamarind sauce, another regional touch.

And the grilled duck ($13) is surrounded by a sweet and tart tamarind sauce.

You can use this same process to make almost anything in a tamarind sauce, but shrimp, because it has minimal cooking time, is by far the easiest.

Don't miss the whole baked fish (boned) in a sweet-tangy tamarind sauce.

Pour in three-quarters of the tamarind sauce and toss to coat the noodles.

Also new - and another chef original - was lamb simmered in a sour-tinged tamarind sauce.

Another good starter is the savory lentil fritters dipped in a tamarind sauce.

It is made out of puffed rice, vegetables and a tangy tamarind sauce.

Place stuffed onions in pot with tamarind sauce.

But nothing, for me, matched the shrimp with tamarind sauce.