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Thin
curry or soup is a popular dish in Thailand. Soup is served or consumed at meals, like
tea, even for breakfast. Street vendors or paddle boat vendors serve countless
varieties of soup. Soups are also full meals when rice or noodles are added along
with meats, seafood, tofu and vegetables. Unlike in the West, it is not served as a first
course, but is served with all the other dishes on the table.
Soup
starts of as bland soup made of rice (Kaeng Chut) or other ingredients. To
this basic soup are added the rich and varied condiments, seasonings, herbs, spices,
roots, chilies, tamarind, fish sauce, palm sugar etc. to create varied and tasteful
concoctions. The most popular Thai soup all over the world is Tom Yum soup which is
flavored with lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves, shallots, chilies, coriander leaves,
seasoned with fish sauce and lemon juice. "Yam",
means that everything is just tossed into the stock as it simmers and released its flavor.
Tom
Yum Goong - (Hot and Sour Shrimp Soup)
- Bring chicken stock to the boil adding lemon grass,
chilies, galangal and lime leaves to taste.
- Boil for 1 to 2 minutes. Add fish sauce, shrimps and
mushrooms to taste, and cook for 2 minutes or until shrimps are pink
- Add onions, palm sugar, lime juice and chili Paste
to taste
- Lower the heat and cook for about 3 minutes.
- Check seasoning; add more fish sauce or lime juice for
a hot and piquant soup.
Types of Thai Soups
TOM KHA KAI- Chicken in coconut cream soup
PO-TEAK A Spicy combination sea food soup with the taste of lemon grass, chili, kaffir
lime and herbs served in a traditional charcoal hot pot
• Kaeng chut a mild flavored soup made of vegetables and/or shrimp,
chicken and pork
• Kaeng chut wun sen the same as kaeng chut but with shredded jelly
• Kaeng liang a typical Thai style vegetable soup
• Tom yam a chili hot and sour soup made with pork, shrimp, beef,
chicken or fish
• Tom indicating that a dish is boiled
• Khao tom mu a mild rice soup flavored with pork
• Khao tom pla a mild rice soup flavored with fish
• Khao tom kung a mild rice soup flavored with shrimp
• Tom khlong salted fish boiled with tamarind and onions
• Pet tun steamed duck soup
• Khao phot corn soup
• Hu cha lam sai pu shark fin soup with crab meat
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