Tom Kha Soup
As a rule, if there’s coconut in it, then the dish will be relatively mild, so for a relatively chilled-out starter for your Thai takeaway, Tom Kha Gai hits the mark.
The light coconut broth overflows with galangal (Kha, or Thai ginger) flavour. Galangal is deeply aromatic and less spicy than its cousin, root ginger.
Thai’s will eat this light soup as a main course with rice, but most Europeans will order it as a soup starter to compliment their takeaway.