We saw plenty of fish — yellow tang, blueline snapper, porcupine puffers — though not as many as I'd seen snorkeling at the hotel beach the day before.
The dish carries a fish-sauce tang along with red-alert heat, and is recommended to all who will otherwise complain that the restaurant isn't authentically Thai enough for their liking.
The Finding Nemo sequel will focus on Ellen DeGeneres' forgetful blue tang fish.
Dory, of course, is course the regal blue tang fish voiced by Ellen DeGeneres in Pixar's 2003 animation Finding Nemo.
The fish had the tang of lemon, which we liked, but also the acrid taste of burned garlic.
But coordinators are now concerned that blue tang fish, like the character Dory, could become too popular once the new film is released.
Her new film may chart the obsession of a memory-challenged blue tang fish looking to be reunited with her parents, but actor and talkshow host Ellen DeGeneres says family is not "about blood relations" but about a place of "support".
Box office experts predict the flick could gross $120 million this weekend, as moviegoers flock to the film that fills in the gaps about Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), the cheerful blue tang fish with short-term memory loss who accompanied Nemo's father, Marlin Albert Brookss) on his journey.
The video message is part of a "Remember the Reef" campaign launched to coincide with the release of her latest film, Finding Dory, in which she plays a reef-dwelling blue tang fish with short-term memory loss, and coincides with a Guardian special report on the future of the reef and what can be done to save it.
This makes each of us Dory, the blue tang fish from Finding Nemo, who has no memory of the past.
