Ode to noodle soup
I was also a soup fanatic in the Netherlands, with a strong preference for thick asparagus or mushroom soup. My pea soup and the variant with kidney beans were renowned. In Thailand I fell for the noodle soup, in all kinds of variations.
Not that I have abandoned the national meal soups. I still regularly make pea soup or kidney bean soup, but then the mercury has to drop below 25 degrees. My girlfriend likes to eat with me and likes the smoked sausage that came over from the Netherlands.
In Thailand I prefer lunch with a plate of tasty noodle soup. And sometimes two. In any case, not the same variant every day, although there are also exceptions to that. By now I know the best stalls in Hua Hin. For example, I can eat excellent duck soup along the railway, preferably with yellow noodles. The tent can hardly bear the name 'hut', but it is reasonably clean. It is sometimes a bit of a shock when a train rumbles past a few meters away, but that should not spoil the fun.
A little further on I regularly enjoy a beef soup, not available everywhere in Thailand. Here too I can choose from different thicknesses of noodles, but I usually choose the yellow variant.
I also like the so-called Chinese noodle soup, with a kind of rolled noodle skins. The lady in question puts a lot of meat in my soup. My girlfriend usually opts for the pork innards version. And all for little baht.
In my neighborhood I have the 'rat na talay' a few times a week, a clear thick soup with a lot of seafood and flat noodles. This soup is full of vegetables. Deliciously blown.
The advantage of such a lunch is that the bite is easily digestible.' The broth is decisive in noodle soup. It is strange that Thai often leave these. However, the broth contains much-needed minerals that we easily lose through sweat. One soup a day, keeps the doctor away…
Indeed the various Thai noodle soup is delicious o/a. at hey restaurant of Rotterdam Roel Elzinga in Koh Chang.
Yes without a doubt one of the tastiest dishes in Thailand. I have already eaten in 100 different stalls and you will not find 2 the same. And the price is a joke, a pint costs twice as much. I also regularly make noodle soup here, but I can't get 100% the same taste. Although my son likes them very much.
Oh, so good. Especially when I don't feel like going to a restaurant, I often order one through the room service in the hotel. Then you pay more (± 120 baht) than at a street stall, but I can slurp as hard as I want, and no one sees how clumsily I suck the wisps in. I also paid for the broth, so I lift the bowl with both hands, put it to my mouth and drink it. The drops of sweat are beading off me, but I'm not wearing anything anyway and after a short shower I'm off for half an hour. The ideal preparation for the eternal hunt for some meat in the tub, to bite into raw.
does appeal to me. I was and am also a big soup lover, including the same soups as mentioned with an addition of white bean soup and tomato soup. My mother was a Michelin chef in this field and I continued her tradition in a vegetarian way, which did very well in my restaurant in Amsterdam.
And here too I enjoy the many noodle soups or sweets. And I agree, the broth is delicious. The fact that the Thai leave this is because they see the soup cooking technique more as preparation and seasoning of the ingredients. That's what matters to them, not that pool of lovely water. Sometimes people don't know what they're missing.
I can find myself in your message, I can eat noodle soup every day, but my favorite is still Tom Yam Kung! 😀
hi, the tom yam kung and the tom yam kai are my favourites, but another delicious noodle soup, I won't turn it down, bring it on I would say, and my girlfriend won't say no to it either.
Delicious! The refined taste is already captured in the base by a broth that is allowed to steep for up to 5 hours.
Topped with a delicious fish sauce, which is on the table, complete the whole. And yes, I choose this because it immediately brings the water supply up to standard and we sweat there! Price 40-50 baht, but in the small corners of Thailand where one farang never comes 25 baht (price level spring 2022!)