Tom Yum Kung (THAI HOT SOUP)

1. Lemon grass
2. Ginger
3. Lime juice
4. Lime skin
5. Lime leaves
6. Thai chili pepper
7. Cilantro
8. Thai basil
9. Oranic chicken stock
10. Shrimp
11. Fish sauce
12. Mirin
13. Brown sugar


*Add Lemon grass, lime skin, ginger, lime leaves, chili peper, fish sauce, mirin, brown sugar, into the stock, broil...

*Add shrimp or tofu or chicken into the stock...
(I cant eat mushroom, allergic to that!! so you can add mushroom if you want!)

*The min before you turn off the fire, add cilantro, Thai basil, and then lime juice

*If want the other creamy kind of soup base, just add coconut milk at the end...


** This is a MUST Eat Thai soup!!

**Again, this soup has the 4 flavors of Thai food: Spicy, Sweet, Sour, and Aroma.
You might wonder, why eat all these hot dishes during summer? It's already HOT enough outside!!

**Yes, during summer our appetite is low, so the sourness, spicyness, and the aroma can stimulate our appetite. Also, the spicyness can stimulate the blood vessel--->Vasodilate... so when the vessels are dilated, the cirulation is better, blood flows back to heart, and supply enough O2 to our Important Brain!! So we wouldnt feel too tired and fatigue...

**Also it's very important to SWEAT!! The spicyness definitely can help us SWEAT a lot!
When we sweat, the heavy metal and other bad stuff are out of our system... and in a way, cleans our body!

**Think about it this way, Thailand, Vietnam, India, and all the Southeastern countries are SUMMER All year round!! But, they have all these Spicy/Sour dishes. And those countries are famous for their veggie and spices, if these ingreidents are bad for people, why would they use those ingredients and create all different kinds of dishes? And totally blend them all into their lives!!

**BUT, remember DO NOT drink COLD water or drinks after eating hot foods, cuz it's just adding extra burden to our stomach (GI system)... Even though it feels good when we eat something cold during summer, but it's only for the Temporay pleasure, it's Not good for our body! If eating cold with hot stuff, some can get diarrhea and upset stomach!

** The best way to cool us down is to drink normal temp. water... just plenty of water... to make up the Sweat that lost!!