Tom Yum Kung soup - where to find the good stuff

[suave]

Hi all, thanks in advance your help.

 

I am looking for some place to get good Tom Yum Kung soup, not the stuff where they open a package of freeze dried spices to add to soup and throw in a few small pealed shrimp - that is not Tom Yum Kung.

 

I used to get my soup from a little old lady, and she made it with the shells and the head on, and it was fire cracker hot, it was the red kind, not the white, but she has retired I would bet - the lady that took over there only makes the white kind and she makes it much different, not worth the trip I would usually make to eat there.  She would put all kinds of non edible pieces of tree and bamboo - Im guessing here - as well as stuff like mushrooms and such.  Now the flavor was very good, it was way past good.  So if anyone knows where I can get soup like this please let me know.....

[Dante99]

Yoot Aroy

[suave]

Is there a secret to your post?

[lostinisaan]

A troll should make a poll.....................

 

       BTW, it's Gung not Kung. 

[JingerBen]

5 minutes ago, lostinisaan said:

A troll should make a poll.....................

 

       BTW, it's Gung not Kung. 

Gung is an improvement on Kung, but Goong is the closest to the Thai pronunciation.

[lostinisaan]

2 minutes ago, JingerBen said:

Gung is an improvement on Kung, but Goong is the closest to the Thai pronunciation.

 

 It all depends on where you're from.............

[JingerBen]

Just now, lostinisaan said:

 

 It all depends on where you're from.............

True to a certain extent, but there isn't much variation in the pronunciation of goong... meaning shrimp.

[lostinisaan]

1 minute ago, JingerBen said:

True to a certain extent, but there isn't much variation in the pronunciation of goong... meaning shrimp.

 

   If you're not familiar with the Thai language, you should use Gung. A double OO could make it to a O sound. Like a gong. 

[heybruce]

The thread immediately becomes a discussion on how to spell Thai words with English letters.

 

Regarding the OP, ask some Thai friends.  Or check any small Thai restaurants where you can see them cooking the food.  Everybody has a different idea of what tom yam should taste like, so you're better off experimenting.

[JingerBen]

2 minutes ago, lostinisaan said:

 

   If you're not familiar with the Thai language, you should use Gung. A double OO could make it to a O sound. Like a gong. 

Then goo would be pronounced go.

Up to you, my friend.

[kaptainrob]

My wife makes the BEST tom yum goong ... solly, not available commercially.

 

Secret is in the freshness of ingredients and equal balance of salt sweet sour spicy.  Most Thai's tend toward too spicy (phet/hot) and/or sweet.  In the south, coconut milk is used for colour and texture though we prefer carnation milk.

[lostinisaan]

9 minutes ago, JingerBen said:

Then goo would be pronounced go.

Up to you, my friend.

 

 Why fighting over something that has no meaning?

 

        Here's a trick we're doing when we want to make something similar in the rice fields.

 

If you don't have vinegar, please shake a tree that's got plenty of red ants on it and stamp them in your food. It gives the food the sourness you usually get from vinegar. And you've for some free meet, etc....

 

      

[Dante99]

1 hour ago, suave said:

Is there a secret to your post?

It is the name of a well known CM restaurant which apparently is a secret to you.

[suave]

As it is a secret to me is there alwo a location of this secret place?

[naboo]

3 hours ago, JingerBen said:

True to a certain extent, but there isn't much variation in the pronunciation of goong... meaning shrimp.

 

Nah, it means prawn.

 

Jan Jao Ka, restaurant coming off Nawarat Road towards the British Council, just before you reach the British council there is a car park on the right and a restaurant at the back. Not been for a while, assume its still there, very good.

[FolkGuitar]

3 hours ago, JingerBen said:

True to a certain extent, but there isn't much variation in the pronunciation of goong... meaning shrimp.

 

26 minutes ago, naboo said:

 

Nah, it means prawn.

 

 

From what I've learned, Thais use the same word for shrimp AND prawns, despite them being different creatures.  กุ้ง

Both taste great!  :)

 

Edited October 3, 2016 by FolkGuitar

[stament]

My suggestion is get friendly with the old retired lady 

[Dante99]

7 hours ago, suave said:

As it is a secret to me is there alwo a location of this secret place?

Like any things it probably always will be.

[suave]

2 hours ago, Dante99 said:

10 hours ago, suave said:

As it is a secret to me is there alwo a location of this secret place?

Like any things it probably always will be.

Seeing as you don't have anything to say why don't you shut up then?  Find somewhere else to be a troll.

Edited October 4, 2016 by suave
wanted to

[Dante99]

3 hours ago, suave said:

Seeing as you don't have anything to say why don't you shut up then?  Find somewhere else to be a troll.

I told you the name of a CM restaurant that serves and has been serving really excellent TYG for decades and a lot of other delicious dishes.  Apparently you are not plugged in sufficiently to know a good thing when it drops in your lap and choose to be offensive to one of the only two people on this thread that have suggested restaurants as you requested.  

 

How about you find someplace to be offensive.

 

 

 

 

[heybruce]

40 minutes ago, Dante99 said:

I told you the name of a CM restaurant that serves and has been serving really excellent TYG for decades and a lot of other delicious dishes.  Apparently you are not plugged in sufficiently to know a good thing when it drops in your lap and choose to be offensive to one of the only two people on this thread that have suggested restaurants as you requested.  

 

How about you find someplace to be offensive.

There are thousands of restaurants in Chiang Mai, even long time expats don't know all of them. You provided a name without even describing it as a restaurant. Why not help the OP out by providing a location?

[Chicog]

18 hours ago, kaptainrob said:

My wife makes the BEST tom yum goong ... solly, not available commercially.

 

Secret is in the freshness of ingredients and equal balance of salt sweet sour spicy.  Most Thai's tend toward too spicy (phet/hot) and/or sweet.  In the south, coconut milk is used for colour and texture though we prefer carnation milk.

 

With coconut milk, isn't it Tom Kha rather than Tom Yum?

 

[Dante99]

44 minutes ago, heybruce said:

There are thousands of restaurants in Chiang Mai, even long time expats don't know all of them. You provided a name without even describing it as a restaurant. Why not help the OP out by providing a location?

post 13 tells you it is a restaurant

 

Help the OP after his post # 19, you have to be kidding.

 

Anyway it is not about knowing all the restaurants, just enough of the better ones.

 

 

[heybruce]

8 minutes ago, Dante99 said:

post 13 tells you it is a restaurant

 

Help the OP after his post # 19, you have to be kidding.

 

Anyway it is not about knowing all the restaurants, just enough of the better ones.

 

Your first post did not identify it as a restaurant.  Your second post did not provide a location.  The fact that no one else has volunteered a location indicates the restaurant is not as well known as you think it is.

[worgeordie]

1 hour ago, Dante99 said:

post 13 tells you it is a restaurant

 

Help the OP after his post # 19, you have to be kidding.

 

Anyway it is not about knowing all the restaurants, just enough of the better ones.

 

 

Maybe Dante99 does not know where it is either,only a few weeks ago,he did

not know where RimPing Supermarket or Tops Supermarket ,were or where !

regards Worgeordie

[suave]

2 hours ago, Dante99 said:

post 13 tells you it is a restaurant

 

Help the OP after his post # 19, you have to be kidding.

 

Anyway it is not about knowing all the restaurants, just enough of the better ones.

 

 

Dante99 has had his feelings hurt from playing the ass.  Too bad.

[sirmud63]

21 hours ago, heybruce said:

The thread immediately becomes a discussion on how to spell Thai words with English letters.

 

Regarding the OP, ask some Thai friends.  Or check any small Thai restaurants where you can see them cooking the food.  Everybody has a different idea of what tom yam should taste like, so you're better off experimenting.

exactly . you could eat the same dish here every day for a year ,and not taste the same one twice . is the beauty of thai food .

[Chicog]

The Koreans are the same with kim chi. Everyone's mum makes the best one.

 

[kaptainrob]

3 hours ago, Chicog said:

 

With coconut milk, isn't it Tom Kha rather than Tom Yum?

 

 

I don't think so.  It's more to do with the spice mix if anything.  

Tom Yum Moo is a popular dish (we eat often) made with similar ingredients but would never be called 'kha' ... no milk of any kind is added.

[Chicog]

1 hour ago, kaptainrob said:

 

I don't think so.  It's more to do with the spice mix if anything.  

Tom Yum Moo is a popular dish (we eat often) made with similar ingredients but would never be called 'kha' ... no milk of any kind is added.

 

No, it's the coconut milk I believe. Tom Yum without, Tom Kha with...

 

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pork (tom kha mu, Thai: ต้มข่าหมู)