When ready to cook, place the skewered meat on a hot barbecue. At the same time, begin heating the peanut sauce. The sauce is ready to serve the moment it starts to boil, and will over thicken if kept hot too long before serving. When chicken is done, remove and serve with the peanut sauce and rice. When you have guests, serve with Thai Cucumber salad to balance the heat of the peanut sauce.
Fish sauce is a common ingredient in Thai food.
A bottle of it cost about a buck and lasts for a year or so. Don't taste it out of the bottle or you will never have the nerve to cook with it. Coconut milk is not the slimy stuff from inside a coconut. To make it, one shreds coconut, soaks the shredded coconut in water or milk over night and then squeezes out the liquid. It can be purchased canned or frozen.