Gang kai : Spicey Chicken Bamboo Soup

This is a very authentic Thai recipe with a strong taste of old fish sauce. This can be off-putting to some people, old fish sauce is salted pickled fish kept for years. When it’s cooked it loses some of its aroma, but uncooked it can be overwhelming. You may prefer to substitute bottled fish sauce instead of the old fish sauce, which is a distilled filtered version of old fish and has a very mild smell.

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The soup is sour and spicy and provides the main flavours, the omelette adds the bulk to the meal. It’s not at all unusual to eat combination dishes like omelette in soup in Thailand, and if you’ve ever had a dry omelette this dish makes a pleasant change! This dish is normally served with rice as a shared side dish. Guests take some of the soup and omelette and spoon it onto their rice.

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 Tom Yum Kung soup combines all the exotic flavours of Thai Food bringing together herbs ingredients such as lemongrass, chillies, ginza and coriander.

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