After sending the kids to school, I usually will go for breakfast around my area. I like soupy thing, like ngau chap, tom yam, asam laksa and others. I guess in Penampang area, most of the people prefer pork noodle soup, beef or buffolo noodle soup. This probably also a religion factor where majority of us are christian. But never the less, we do have a lot of Indian and Malay restaurant apart from the Chinese. When I think about it, we do have a lot of nice eating places, to name a few, Wan Wan restaurant, who serves fish soup, Krishna Curry house, an Indian restaurant who serves very nice fish head curry dish, Mee Sup Pipin, who serves pork soup noodle, Wild Treasure restaurant, who serves crocodile meat and etc.
I think I have tasted a wide range of tom yam and I know what i'm talking about when it comes to tom yam. My favourite tom yam place will be some where in Thailand and unforfunately I can afford to go there all the time due to time and money constrain. We'll stick to local destination. ehem, my number 1 choice to have my tom yam is a friend house, she is a Thai lady and she is seriously good when come to this dish. I even craved for it when I was pregnant with my eldest son and she got no problem with doing the cooking for me. She always said " its for the baby", haha! she is a dear friend and thanks for letting me enjoy the moment (you know who you are when you read this :) ). Now she is rather busy and i'm not pregnant anymore so good enough to have that moment with her.
The second choice will be Wan Wan restaurant, its a must to go there atleast once a week. The tasted of the dish is so reach. Their tom yam is the creamy type, which I like most. Their ingredients are very fresh especially their fish and prawns. oohh..love it. I can almost taste it in my mouth right now ;)
My third choice use to be Atong but it seems that this restaurant has lost it taste when my husband and I when just now and my husband was really disappointed with the taste of his tom yam. Mine was same but I try not to focus on the disappointment rather tried to compliment it with some calamancy or kasturi we call it locally and some cili padi. It was tasteless at the beginning but as the flavous mixed together, it become ok.
I don't know about you but how I eat my noodle soup is by having two or three spoons of the soup first before diggin in to the noodles. This way, if the soup is good, I will be happy eating it the whole bawl. Other wise I can't stop trying to find some other things to eat just to ease the wanting the right taste apetite.
No offense to hotel food but I still prefer the old school way of getting good food. For me, the taste of hotel food is very safe. Meaning you can add a little bit of this and that depending on how creative or deliciuos you want your soup to be to suite you taste bud because they do provide you with all the coriander, spring onion and etc at the side of the counter but who wants to take that hastle of doing all that when you can just order and get the right taste on the dot! At the end of the day we will still be paying with what we eat :)
So what is tom yam? For me, it is a delisious spicy soupy recipe from Thailand, mixed with curry paste, tamarind juice, turmeric, fish source, lime juice, lime leaves, lemon grass, coconut milk, brown sugar, cooking oil and alst but not least sliced fish or other sea food.
Some recipe book you can buy online with reasonable price, have fun and good luck!
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