3 thai style hot sour soup Recipes

red curry paste, chopped garlic, chopped ginger (preferably galanga), kaffir lime leaves, firm tofu cake, drained and cubed, chicken/ vegetable stock, onion, chopped, carrots, peeled and sliced thinly, green bell peppers, sliced, shitake mushrooms, cleaned and halved, bamboo shoots (available in cans at asian food stores), corn or tapioca flour dissolved in 1/4 cup of water, juice from 1/2 a lime, stalks of cilantro or coriader leaves, chopped for garnishing, fish sauce : according to taste, minced shrimp or shredded chicken

dried rice vermicelli (sometimes referred to as rice stick noodles), vegetable stock (5 cups), stalk lemongrass , pale section only thinly sliced, fresh kaffir lime leaves , roughly torn, fresh red chilies , deseeded and thinly sliced, cm piece fresh ginger, peeled and thinly sliced or 1 tsp bottled grated gingerroot, green beans , topped and cut into 3cm lengths, button mushrooms, halved, peeled green prawns (present nicely with tail left intact), tomatoes, halved, fresh lime juice