"nga-pee" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1880, J.H. Titcomb, chapter VII, in Personal Recollections of British Burma and Its Church Mission Work in 1878-79",
          "text": "Passing by Henzada, because intending to return thither, we went on to Yangdoon or Nyoungdoon, a large and thriving port celebrated for its fishing trade. Of this fact we were soon abundantly convinced by the abominable smell of nga-pee, a kind of dried and putrid fish, of which the Burmese are particularly fond; nor by that circumstance alone, for we counted a hundred and twenty large trading vessels anchored along the bank.",
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          "ref": "1882, James George Scott, The Burman: His Life and Notions, Ch. xxviii: \"Nga-pee\"",
          "text": "Travellers on the steamers of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company are wont to rail in no measured terms at the fish-paste which forms an invariable and obtrusively evident part of the cargo, yet no Burman would think a dinner complete without his modicum of nga-pee, and it is a noteworthy fact that one form of the condiment is of frequent appearance on English dinner-tables in the East, under the name of balachong, a term borrowed from the Straits Settlements, but which designates nothing more nor less than a specially prepared variety of nga-pee."
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