Tom yum paste from Lobo in a 30 g sachet, product of Thailand, with no preservatives and no artificial colours added, making 2 cups of hot and sour soup.
Lobo Tom Yum Paste, Thailand comes in a white sachet with the yellow Lobo banner, the Thai name เครื่องต้มยำ in pink and Tom Yum Paste in black. Two red tags read no preservatives added and no artificial colours added, and the serving suggestion shows a blue and white bowl of soup with prawns, mushrooms, lemongrass and chilli. The sachet gives a net weight of 30 g (1.06 oz), says it makes 2 cups of excellent hot soup and reads product of Thailand, with a Thai Select mark. As general background, tom yum is a family of hot and sour Thai soups; tom refers to boiling and yam means mixed. Commonly, cooks stir the paste into boiling water or stock, add prawns, mushrooms, tomato and fresh herbs such as lemongrass, galangal, lime leaves and coriander, then finish with lime juice. The photos show bowls of prawn tom yum beside lemongrass, ginger, chillies and limes, and a table with rice and stir-fried green beans. One sachet is an easy portion for a pot of two cups.
