/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16097207
more like Tom Yuck
holy fuck how will Tom Yum ever recover

>>16097207
creamy

>>16097207
creamy for me

I thought right was Tom Kha

>>16097207
Who was Tom and what about him was yum?

>>16097248
His penis

>>16097247
It is.

>>16097247
>>16097343
No, Tom Kha looks like this.

>>16097363
It doesn't look like that

>>16097363
I looked it up and most sources seem to imply that the biggest/only difference between the two is the addition of coconut milk. So, a "creamy tom yum" is just a tom kha.

The difference between your photo and OP's seems like it's just the color of the oil, either because it's chili-infused or has absorbed pigment from the ingredients.

I've gotten tom kha, it always looks different based on the restaurant's variation. I'm open to being wrong on the distinction between the soups though, just putting this out there.

>>16097207
Creamy 101%

tom yum makes my stomach growl and the urge to crap even though spicy food doesnt affect me, why is that

Clear... CLEAR a broth should be CLEAR unless it is a cream soup, which this is decidedly not. Creamy is the sign of an unskilled cook and should be avoided at all costs.

>>16097207
Why the fuck do people not remove the tails from shrimp in dishes where you aren't meant to be eating them with your hands? It's like leaving the peels on bananas when you slice them in a sundae, it's fucking retarded.

>>16097230
gottem good

>>16097207
That's not how you spell Tom kha kai.

>>16100186
autism

>>16100186
>unless it is a cream soup, which this is decidedly not.
they literally add coconut milk senpai

>>16100186
Autism Speaks.

>>16100321
>kai
That's just Thai for chicken/poultry, dummy.

Also, authentic Thai food aside, the place where I worked had a clear distinction between tomyum and tomkha: both used similar amounts of a fish-sauce+lime juice+sugar base for overt flavor, but tomyum was started with water and Chili paste and finished with a dash of half and half and fresh cilantro, and tomkha was started with just coconut milk and no finish besides cilantro. Pretty much all of our recipes were modified for practicality, given the expense of lemongrass &c., but our owner/head chef and everybody else is Thai, and they didn't skimp on effort for keeping everything actually tasty.

Worked there four years, only white guy to ever stick around in the kitchen that long. I miss it ; _ ; but my gf/fiancee got a good paying job elsewhere, and the pandemic fucked my hours up.

Who the fuck makes "clear" tomyum?

>>16100392
>That's just Thai for chicken/poultry, dummy
Yeah, I don't really know what I'm talking about when it comes to Thai cuisine, but I like the coconut milk based soup a lot more than the more iconic tom yum. I've lived in a couple places with a good amount of SE Asians, and kind of wish I had a stint in a Thai or Cambodian restaurant, but as a white dude that kind of seemed insane.

>>16100413
It is insane. I got lucky in that I'd done deliveries and waited tables at that place, tried starting at another Thai place after I moved, they weren't feeling it and I couldn't stick out the awkward phase.

Almost a year later, if I ever move back I'm going right back to cooking Thai. Hard, sweaty line work for shit pay, but it was great

>>16100423
>Hard, sweaty line work for shit pay, but it was great
I've been on the line for a solid decade, and that describes every cooking job I've ever had (I actually get paid pretty decently now), but I've never, ever, seriously considered working at any kind of Asian place with a bunch of Asian people who actually grew up cooking/eating that kind of food. It sounds like starting on hard mode after having a stroke.

>>16100444
Yeah, but it was my first kitchen job, so I figured anything would be like that anyway

My name ain't Tom

But that shit Yum

!

>>16100186
good bait

>>16097230
good one, brother

>>16097230
HAHA GOTTEM
YOU GO GLENCOCO

>>16100186
Yeah it's reaaaaaally important to waste ground meat or eggs to clarify a broth that you're gonna cloud with coconut milk.

>>16097207
creamy

>>16097230
>holy fuck how will Tom Yum ever recover
you can't just say something like this in response to something you yourself said

>>16101947
If you're a gigachad like >>16097230 you most certainly can

>>16097230
ahahahahaha get fucked op

>>16101983
good point.

>>16097230
Tombros...