Thai Soup Hot!

         Thailand is a tropical country with ocean beside. The climate is hot, and have ample rain and sunshine every year. As a result, Thai has abundant green vegetable, seafood, and fruit, and the Thai cuisine is mainly made of these seafood, fruit, and vegetable. The special climate affects the Thais’ tremendous dependence to sour and spice, which are the two biggestfeatures of the Thai cuisine. The cooks in Thailand like to use various materials like garlic, chili, limes, fish sauce, shrimp paste and so on to make a very sour and hot pot of Thai delicacies. And the most famous one is Tom Yum.

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Thai's natural scenery

       Tom Yum is a unique sour and spicy soup in Thailand. The mainly materials are lemon leaves, lemon grass, and shrimps. The soup is very popular in Thailand. You can it the soup from luxurious hotel to ordinary residents’ dining tables, making Tom Yum the representative of Thai cuisine. Meanwhile, it is also prestigious in other Southeast Asian countries like Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia.

Tom Yum

Tom Yum

         In the name of Tom Yum, “Tom” means sour and spicy, and “ Yum” means shrimps. Actually, Tom Yum means sour and spicy soup. However, the soup is put in lots of green curry, and many people are obsessed with the green curry after being accustomed to it.

Green Curry

        There is a famous folk about Tom Yum. In 18^th century, the Chinese King Zheng ruled all the country. Once, his daughter was sick and didn’t want to eat anything. As a result, King Zheng than assigned his private cook to make some appetizer soup for the princess. To everyone’s surprise, after the princess finishing the soup, she felt excellent and got rid of the sickness soon. The king was jubilant and named the soup “national soup” from them on.

Thai's Princess

       Actually, making the soup isn’t hard and tedious, but you need some specific material born in the local. The most significant material is Thai lemon, which is a kind of distinctive fruit in Thailand. Besides, the spicy taste of the soup is from Thai chili, also considered to be the one of the spiciest chili in the world. On top of that, other garnishes like fish sauce and green curry are also the typical seasonings of Thailand. With all the variety material from crazily spicy to bland materials, the soup is sour, spicy, tasty, smooth and sweet. How wonderful it is!

The materials of Tim Yum