Fish Soup

Rakhine Noodle
(Rakhine Moat-tee)
Ingredients
(6-8 servings)
1 lb any good fish
2 tbsp shrimp paste
1 teasp salt
4 cloves garlic, crushed
1 tbsp pepper
2 teasp oil
5 tbsp pea powder
3 tbsp chily powder
3 tbsp tamarine
1 tbsp shrimp paste
10 pcs hot chillies
3 pounds thin rice noodle (1 lb if dried) (boil if dried)

Directions
Remove bones from fish if any.
Boil the top 5 items in 2 quarts of water for 20 minutes.
Take out 1/3 of boiled fish, and dry in a pan to get fish-powder with 1 tea spoon of oil.

Fry 2 tbsp of chily powder in 1 tea-spoon of oil.
In each small plates, prepare these on table:
grind chillies
tamarind paste and water
shrimp paste and water
cooked pea powder
cooked chilly powder
Serve rice noodle in bowls. Mix a little of each from small plates. Serve the thin fish soup in seperate bowl.

When some like to eat with soup, add the soup to noodle.