Boogie Mama's Bangin Coconut Soup
Warm your soul, spice up your senses, and get ready to boogy with a bit of this bangin' soup. -kp (all ingredients can be found down the road at Grand Asia for dirt cheap) ps if you're nose isn't running and you aren't red faced when eating, you've done something wrong

Ingredients

1 bulb garlic (finely diced)
1 stalk lemongrass (diced)
1 spoon coconut oil
2 pinches white pepper
2 pinches star anise
2-3 birds eye chilis (halved and diced)
4 caps full Chinese cooking wine
2 caps vinegar
1/4 cup pineapple juice
1 spoon tom yum paste
1 spoon sour coconut paste
1 package enokitake mushrooms (sliced bottoms, chop to bite size)
1 chinese eggplant (halved and sliced)
1 strip pork belly (scrub skin if not separating from marble slice into bite size)
1 head cabbage cored and chopped
2-3 caps fish sauce
4 caps dark sweet soy sauce
1 can thick coconut milk (Chef's Choice is awesome)

1 lime halved and gutted
sambal (garlic chili paste) to taste
cilantro chopped an de-stemmed to taste
thai basil chopped and de stemmed to taste

Instructions

turn heat source to high and add clean pot, once hot add:
garlic (finely diced)
stalk lemongrass (diced)
2-3 birds eye chilis (halved and diced)

for about a minute to brown
then add:
1 spoon coconut oil
2 pinches white pepper
2 pinches star anise
4 caps full Chinese cooking wine
2 caps vinegar
1/4 cup pineapple juice
1 spoon tom yum paste
1 spoon sour coconut paste

stir with spoon
then add:
1 package enokitake mushrooms (sliced bottoms, chop to bite size)
1 chinese eggplant (halved and sliced)
1 strip pork belly (scrub skin if not separating from marble slice into bite size)

reduce heat to medium for 5 minutes and stir
then add:
1 head cabbage cored and chopped
2-3 caps fish sauce
4 caps dark sweet soy sauce

cover with lid for 5 minutes stirring every so often to distribute sauces and evenly cook
then add:
1 can thick coconut milk (Chef's Choice is awesome)

add:
1 lime halved and gutted
sambal (garlic chili paste) to taste
cilantro chopped an de-stemmed to taste
thai basil chopped and de stemmed to taste
spicy · savory · sweet · thai · soup · chinese · traditional · healthy