Have you ever heard about ‘Tom yum’?
Have you ever heard about ‘Tom yum’? It is traditional Thai food. Last Saturday I tried to eat ‘Tom yum fried rice’ at Thikiti, Hong Uni. (Where is Southeast Asia restaurant) There is famous for traditional for traditional food from a variety of Asian country. Especially Thai food of many foods is made a choice by me in there. It is ‘Tom yum Fried Rice’. Allow me introduce this food with my experience.
Originally ‘Tom Yum’ is a soup with garlic, mint, lemon, ginger, a red pepper, spicy chili, shrimp, fresh vegetable and so on. ‘Tom yum fried rice’ is made by this stuff and rice. This food is very spicy and sour. Most Korean like a taste such as spicy but a sour taste with Thai traditional spices is sometimes hard to Korean. The sour taste causes pain to me, too. When I ate ‘Tom yum fried rice’, it is similar to a Korean food. It is ‘Kim chi fried rice’. Let me compare between ‘Tom yum fried rice’ and ‘Kim chi fried rice’.
At first they have same color in appearance. Its color is red. It means that a taste is spicy. But frankly speaking I feel spicier ‘Tom yum fried rice’ than ‘Kim chi fried rice’. Because ‘Tom yum fired rice’ has both spicy and sour taste. A sour taste with a variety of spices seems to stimulate my taste. Next, Both foods have same main stuff. It is rice. Rice is important to Asian as bread for Western. Rice is the staple food of most Asian. But Thai rise is more soft and slim than Korean rice. So ‘Tom yum fried rice’ is more smooth and mild. Finally as we know from the food name, either ‘Tom yum fried rice’ or ‘Kim chi fried rice’ is prepared a dish as ‘fried rice’. It means that both foods have same the recipe. So an aspect of the foods approaches me with heavy and oily. But it is not severe so much that the food is not easily digested.
Up to this, it is difference between ‘Tom yum fried rice’ and ‘Kim chi fried rice’ that I felt after trying to eat both foods.
