For the fish cakes, place the fish, fish sauce, red curry paste, lime leaf, galangal, lemongrass, coriander root, egg, palm sugar, beans, and lime juice in a food processor and blend to a paste.
If you don’t have time to make the mayo for the tartare sauce, substitute with a good-quality bought mayonnaise. For the fish cakes, put the mashed potato in a bowl and break up with a fork.
Tod mun pla, or fried fish cakes, is a popular dish from Thailand. The best I’ve eaten were in Bangkok, where a street food vendor was frying them as fast as she could for a line of eager customers.
Korean rice cakes are typically cooked in a simmering sauce, but this recipe bakes them ... feel free to swap in any large piece of flaky fish of your choice: Cod or halibut would both work ...