chicken or vegetable bouillion • fresh tomatoes • big tamarind beanpod or half a lime • concentrated tomato paste, carmelized in olive oil • big ripe slices of pineapple • Large slice of fresh ginger • thin slices each of choice of carrot, onion, leeks, sweet green pepper, bamboo shoots, bean sprouts, shitake mushrooms, cabbage • nest of mung bean noodles or rice noodles • sweet thick soy sauce, or regular soy sauce with 3 drops of maple syrup • each coriander, sambal pepper sauce • cornstarch, 4 Tbs cold water • Garnish of one slivered fresh peppermint leaf