recipes: tom yum shrimp

Noodle soup with shrimp my way, spicy and a bit sour the way I like it.

Ingredients: sunflower oil 2tbsp., fresh Ginger 2cm, Sambal oelek 1tbsp., sweet pepper 1/2, garlic 2 cloves, springonion 2, Stock from a cube (tom yum flavour), noodles 1 pac (tom yum flavour), shrimp 12, fish sauce 2 tbsp., light soy sauce 2tbsp., lime 1, palm sugar, lime leaves 5, pak soy

Heat the oil and add sambal, fry for 1 min. Ad the roughly shopped pepper and sliced ginger fry for a few more minutes. Then add the stock. Bring to the boil with the spices from your noodles. Next the garlic (just bash it), noodle, shrimp, sugar and lime juice. Taste it and add fish sauce and soy sauce. If you want you can use more sugar or lime. Stop the heat and finish of with the spring onion and the shredded lime leaves. Serve hot with some paksoi or cabbage. Serves two.
It is up to you how sour and spicy you like it.

Feed me: 3O minutes

About a 40 min. walk from Muang Ngoi Neua we came across these signs, Nice !!! We love Laos.

Feed me: Lao restaurant bill

40.000 Kip (LAK, Lao currency) is about 4 Euro.

recipes: Stuffed long sweet peppers

Ingredients: minced meat 250 gr (beef or lamb), 5 small red onions, butter 2 tbsp, 2 long sweet peppers, Cumin 1 tesp, tomato puree 2 tbsp, parsley 2 tbsp, 2 dried chili peppers, cayenne pepper 1/2 tsp, pepper & salt, 3 tomatoes, plain flour 150 gr, lukewarm water, olive oil 2 tbsp, juice of half a lemon.

Turkish salad: slice 4 onions in very thin rings and cover with salt. Leave for 30 minutes and rinse with water. Slice the tomatoes, dry the onion rings with some kitchen paper. Put the tomatoes and onions in a bowl add the lemon juice, olive oil and some pepper & salt. Mix and put in the fridge.

Stuffed peppers: prick the peppers with a fork and blanch them for 2 or 3 minutes, drain. Take a bowl and add meat, tomato puree, 1 finely chopped onion, finely chopped parsley, chilies, cayenne pepper, cumin, 1 tbsp butter and some pepper & salt. Mix very well. Cut the top of the pepper and take out the seeds carefully. Fill the peppers with the meat mixture. Pre heat the oven on 200 °c. Take an oven plate and butter it. Lay the peppers on the plate and cover them with olive oil. Put into the oven for about 30 minutes. Turn on the other side after 15 minutes. Serve hot, you can put the peppers on a BBQ if you like.

Paratha: sift the plain flour add some salt and luke warm water and make a firm dough. Leaf for 15 minutes. Divide the dough into 4 balls. Flatten the balls and roll with a rolling pin until 2 mm thick. brush with melted butter and fold in halve, butter again and fold. roll very flat again and bake in a dry non stick frying pan for 2 minutes each side. Until they start blistering and turning brown.

Feed me: Selling sausages

Selling sausages and rice crackers at the Chinese market in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Feed me: dried fish

Dried fish at the Nyaungshwe market near Inle Lake, Myanmar.

recipes: Chicken salad

Ingredients: Shallot 2, medium sized red onion 2, ripe tomatoes (Cœur de Bœuf) 4, 3 red chili pepper, 1/2 cup of peanuts, 1/2 cup cashew nuts, 1/5 part iceberg salad, sunflower oil 8 tbsp, 1 lime, black pepper, rock salt, fish sauce 2 tbsp, a little palm sugar about a tsp, rice crackers (Vietnamese or plain), chicken breast 300 gr, sambal oelek 1 tbsp, paprika powder 1/2 tbsp.

Slice the chicken in to small strips. Take 4 tbsp of oil and mix with sambal, paprika powder, pepper and salt. Mix together with the chicken and leave for about an hour to marinade.
Slice the red onion in fine rings and fry until golden brown in some oil. Dry roast the nuts.
Slice the shallots and chilli peppers in to fine rings and put in a bowl. Add the sliced tomatoes, dry roasted nuts and the finely sliced iceberg salad. Mix 3 tbsp lime juice with 2 tbsp fish sauce, 2tbsp oil and sugar.
Add black pepper, rock salt and the lime mixture to the salad and mix gently with your hands.
Fry the chicken in a wok or frying pan. When done dress the plates and sprinkle with some rice crackers (small parts).

Feed me: Air Asia

Flying from Paris to Kuala Lumpur. This is however no longer possible!