Fermented Shrimp Marinade

Name: Fermented Shrimp Marinade
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: about 1¼ cups (275 ml)
Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients: ¼ cup (58 ml) Shrimp Paste; ¼ cup (58 ml) Oyster Sauce; about 3 Tbsp (38 ml) Fish Sauce; about 3 cloves (15 g) Garlic; 15 g Ginger; ¼ cup (60 ml) Water

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Evelyn Garcia & Henry Lu recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Evelyn Garcia & Henry Lu.

MARINADE · FRIED CHICKEN & GRILLED MEATS

In the published recipe, this is the marinade for fried chicken. The same recipe pairs it with Thai Chile Fish-Sauce Honey, the chile-honey lacquer.

Garcia & Lu's fermented shrimp marinade for fried chicken.

On the jar

FERMENTED SH

Method: blend
Yield: about 1¼ cups
Ingredients: 6

Blender sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

Shrimp Paste 58 mlOyster Sauce 58 mlFish Sauce 38 mlWater 60 ml

Ingredients

Shrimp Paste¼ cup (58 ml)
Oyster Sauce¼ cup (58 ml)
Fish Sauceabout 3 Tbsp (38 ml)
Garlicabout 3 cloves (15 g)
Ginger15 g
Water¼ cup (60 ml)

Method

This sauce needs a blender. The jar is for storing it, not making it.
Combine measured ingredients and blend until smooth.
Taste and adjust salt and acid.

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Provenance

Evelyn Garcia and Henry Lu cook New Asian American cuisine in Houston; James Beard Best Chef: Texas 2026.

Adapted from a Evelyn Garcia & Henry Lu recipe (Evelyn Garcia & Henry Lu / StarChefs fried chicken).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

No. This one needs a blender or stove, so make it from this page. Jars only carry pour-and-shake sauces. Its companion jar is below.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). On a jar, the printed lines, counts, and QR guide carry the jar-batch amounts. Follow the jar or this page, not a mix of both. Amounts in the jar’s ADD row are rounded to the nearest common spoon measure (T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) so they can be read off the glass.

Where did this recipe come from?

Adapted from Evelyn Garcia & Henry Lu / StarChefs fried chicken (published as “Fermented Shrimp Marinade”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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