you can take the malaysian out of malaysia, but...

When its wet and cold outside, as it is now in Paris, a bowl of hot soup or in my case, hot spicy curry laksa, is what I would call comfort food.

In a little Asian grocer down the road, the owner points out the Malaysian curry powder to me and shares with me some Vietnamese recipes.  I find bean sprouts, fish cake, tofu puffs, mint and coconut milk.  I'm sure if I looked hard enough I would even have found blood jelly...

I made this a few weeks ago, and I do crave a bowl right now!