Tom Yum Soup

Ingredients:

• 1 lit water with chicken stock powder or cube
• 2 stalks lemon grass (white portion) sliced
• 70 g galangal (blue ginger)  sliced
• 7 lime leaves
• 4 tbsp fish sauce
• 2 tbsp chilli paste
• 2 lime
• 100 g mushrooms sliced
• 3 - 5 chilli padi sliced
• 500 g prawns
• coriander

Procedure:

1. bring to boil water with chicken stock powder or cubes
2. add sliced lemon grass, galangal and lime leaves ... bring to boil
3. add sliced mushrooms, fish sauce, chilli paste ... bring to boil
4. add lime juice, sliced chilli padi, prawns ... done when the prawns turn red ... garnish with coriander leave
5. serve with cooked rice or noodle

Note:
for those with seafood allergy ...

• use light soy sauce instead of fish sauce ... taste will change a little
• use sliced chicken meat instead of prawns