Sua Rong Hai

Name: Sua Rong Hai
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Thai
Ingredients: 500g beef brisket or sirloin; 2 tbsp soy sauce and 1 tbsp oyster sauce; Jaew: 3 tbsp fish sauce, 2 tbsp tamarind juice, 1 tbsp roasted chilli flakes, 1 tbsp toasted rice powder; Shallots and spring onions; Sticky rice, to serve

เสือร้องไห้/SUEA rong HAI/

Also known as: Crying Tiger, Suea Rong Hai, Weeping Tiger Beef

About this dish

Grilled beef brisket sliced and served with a punchy jaew dipping sauce of chilli, tamarind and toasted rice.

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Ingredients

🥩500g beef brisket or sirloin

🫙2 tbsp soy sauce and 1 tbsp oyster sauce

🌶️Jaew: 3 tbsp fish sauce, 2 tbsp tamarind juice, 1 tbsp roasted chilli flakes, 1 tbsp toasted rice powder

🧅Shallots and spring onions

🌾Sticky rice, to serve

Method

Serves 2

Marinate the beef in the soy and oyster sauce for 1 hour.

Grill over hot charcoal until charred outside and pink inside.

Rest, then slice thinly.

Mix the jaew ingredients with sliced shallots and spring onion.

Serve the beef with the jaew, sticky rice and raw vegetables.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

'Crying tiger' gets its name from a story that the dipping sauce is so hot it would make a tiger cry; it comes from Isan.

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