curry

soup today was coconut chicken and red curry. it wasn't even close to being spicy enough, but the flavour was right and it was sprinkled with large clumps of chopped cilantro leaves, vermicelli, and roast chicken. what it tasted like more than any other thing was laksa -- all that was missing was the handful of thick rice-flour noodles and a sprinkle of chopped laksa leaf (Persicaria odorata, related to buckwheat and also known as vietnamese mint even though it is nothing of the sort).