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Dongyin Gong Tang (Tom yum or tom yam) is a distinctive soup with hot and sour taste in Thailand and Laos. Also called Dongyan Decoction, it is very common in Thailand. The main ingredients are lemon leaves, citronella, shrimp and so on.

Thai restaurants and ordinary people often drink this soup, thus becoming the representative of Thai cuisine. At the same time, it is also a very popular dish in other Southeast Asian countries, such as Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.

Its characteristics

In the name of this soup, "Winter Yin" means hot and sour, and "Gong" means shrimp, which is actually a hot and sour shrimp soup in translation. Dong Yin Gong Tang is very spicy, and there is a lot of curry in it, but many people will be greedy for it after getting used to it.

In the 18th century, when Thailand swallowed the Li Wu Dynasty, Chinese King Zheng Xin was in power, and Princess Miao Yun was sick and didn't want to eat anything. King Zheng Xin asked the chef to make some appetizing soup for the princess. Unexpectedly, after the princess drank this bowl of soup, she felt comfortable and her condition eased. Zheng Xinwang named it Dongyin Gong Tang and named it "Guo Tang".

There are mainly lemon leaves, citronella, peppers and shrimps unique to Thailand, and the soup has a combination of sour, hot, sweet and salty taste and strong spices. This soup is not troublesome to cook, but to cook it, you need several raw materials unique to Thailand.

One of the most important ingredients is Thai lemon, which is a special seasoning fruit in Southeast Asia. Another seasoning is fish sauce, which is like soy sauce, also known as fish soy sauce. It is a common seasoning in Guangdong, Fujian and other places. It is a common aquatic seasoning in Fujian cuisine, Chaozhou cuisine and Southeast Asian cuisine. It originated in Fujian and Chaoshan, Guangdong, and was spread to Vietnam and other East Asian countries by early overseas Chinese.

The source of spicy taste in soup is Thai morning pepper, which is one of the hottest peppers in the world. Other seasonings include curry sauce, lemon grass, shrimp sauce and fish sauce, ranging from mild to extremely spicy.