Salor spee t'souy nung pakon.
(Shrimp and yu choy soup.)

Shrimp with crisp yu choy (Chinese flowering cabbage) soup is delicious Khmer Krom country food.
• Ingredients :
  • ½ lb Shrimp,peeled and chopped
  • 2 Stalks green onion, chopped
  • 1 Tablespoon sugar
  • 2 Tablespoons fish sauce ( if use with pickle or fermented fish add only 1 tablespoon fish sauce)
  • ¼ Teaspoon black pepper
  • 4 Cups water
  • 2 Tablespoons minced fresh or frozen lemon grass
  • 1 lb yu choy, cut 3 inches in length,washed, rinsed
  • 1 Tablespoon pickle fish (pahok) or fermented fish (mam) ( option)
  • 2 Tablespoons roasted rice powder
• Procedures :
  In a small bowl, mix shrimp with green onion, sugar, fish sauce and black pepper together, set it a side.
  Put water and lemon grass in a soup pot, cook till water boiling.
  Add yu choy to boiling water, cook till yu choy tender.
  Add marinated shrimp and cook till shrimp turns darker pink color.
  Add *pahok* or *mam* and roasted rice powder. (option)
  Serve hot with rice.