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jon laa wrote on October 16th, 2009, 1:44 am

I made tom yum noodles with some left over chicken - bad combination. And armed with a glass, an extra large class, of milk, I started savoring my bowl of strange tom yum.

Okay. I think once you have tom yum in thailand often enough, you know how they roughly taste and they seldom venture too far from that. The bowl of tom yum I am having now is like some sort of indescribable thing. It isn’t that spicy but it made me cough a bit just now. Tsk!

Fish sauce, um, stinks. But it really brings out a different dimension in dishes. And since it’s my first time using the fish sauce, hur hur, I could only try it on my tom yum and it isn’t really that awesome. The chicken is way way way more overpowering.

First attempt at recreating thai fish: failed.

Even the noodles are wrong. I have no idea why. I think I overcooked rather than undercooked them. Maybe the dry ones are like that, a bit more rubbery and not as cool as what you get off the street stores.

I am determined to grow some lemon grass and kaffir lime.