High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Shrimp paste or shrimp sauce, is a common ingredient used in Southeast Asian and Southern Chinese cuisine. It is known as terasi (also spelled trassi, terasie) in Indonesian, ngapi in Burmese, kapi in Thai, Khmer and Lao language, belacan (also spelled belachan, blachang) in Malay, m?m ru?c, m?m tép and m?m tôm in Vietnamese (the name depends on the shrimp used), bagoong alamang (also known as bagoong aramang) in Filipino and hom ha/hae ko (POJ: hê-ko) in Min Nan Chinese.