Thai Street Food

The dish is tom yum gai. This is a hot and sour soup with chicken. Basically, you bring some chicken stock to the boil and add lemon grass and kaffir lime leaves. Then add the chicken and mushrooms. You season to taste with fish sauce, sugar and lime juice. At the end, add cherry tomatoes and the chilies. When you order tom yum at restaurants, you need to say what kind you want. The choice is either "nam sai" which is transparent soup or "nam kon" which is thick soup. I prefer the latter because they add coconut milk to thicken the soup. Very delicious and one of my favourites. At the roadside foodstall this cost only 20 baht. Down the market it might be 30-35 baht.