Thai Fishcakes

Really, really nice! This is one of the dishes that makes you think that somebody must have spent hours in the kitchen, when in fact it was pretty easy (I should give this recipe to my mother. She reacts to practically every culinary compliment with the comment "And it was so easy!").

That said, I wouldn't serve it as a main dish (truthfully, Slater actually serves it as an appetizer himself, it's just us who didn't realize). The fish cakes have a wonderfully complex taste. It's very impressive for the first few bites, but after that you can't help yourself thinking "And now what?". I think you can even serve 2 cakes per person, meaning that you can even serve this dish to six instead of four, as long as your (real) main dish is substantial enough.

The sweet dipping sauce didn't really make the cut for me. I didn't even need any sauce at all, but if, a quick mix of e.g. fish sauce, rice vinegar and water would have worked just as fine.