Are you old enough to remember the Saturday Night Live skit from the 1970s, “Shimmer Floor Wax?” If you are you do, you’ll remember it featured an argument between Dan Ackroyd and Gilda Radner about Shimmer Floor wax: Dan, it is a dessert topping, Gilda, no its a floor wax. Chevy Chase comes in and tells them to stop arguing it is both, a desert topping and a floor wax. If you never saw it, here it is:
Now what has that got do with Tom Yum Goong, and that big word Disambiguation? Well, disambiguation is Wikipedia’s word, it means to remove the ambiguity from a word or phrase if it has two meanings. Wikipedia’s example is Mercury, are you searching for information about the planet or the metallic element?
Disambiguate Tom Yum Goong
For Tom Yum Goong, we can combine both ideas, it fits the “Shimmer” model and the disambiguation model from Wikipedia, it is a delicious soup that is the subject of the this website, but it is also a movie. So while it is both, this article is my attempt to disambiguate the phrase Tom Yum Goong. Here, you are going to find information on the soup, how many calories Tom Yum Goong has, the Tom Yum paste that is the key ingredient, variants of the soup like Tom Yum Gai that uses chicken instead of shrimp, ingredients for Tom Yum Goong soup or even the Red Curry paste that is required to make it. You are not going to find anything about the movie. But if you are looking for information about the movie and you are here, what are you going to do? You can stay for a while and finish reading this page as we are going to try to provide information about the movie too. Remember here, it is a soup, not its a movie, not its both.
Tom Yum Goong The Movie
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Tom Yum Goong the movie dates from 2005, and is also from Thailand like the soup. A martial arts action movie, it features Tony Jaa directed by Prachya Pinkaew, the director responsible for the Jaa’s first movie, Ong-Bak. This poplar movie has many names. In the UK it was The Warrior King. In the United States it was The Protector. In Spain it was released as the Thai Dragon and in Germany, Revenge of the Warrior King.
If you are here for the soup and are learning about the movie, warning, spoilers ahead. If you have already seen the movie and got here for soup, you won’t mind us giving a little away so that visitors will know more about each. If you like you can watch it here:
Kham’s family history is the protection and care of the King of Thailand’s war elephants. The plot villains steal an elephant and its calf in the care of Kham. He follows the trail to Australia and a Thia restaurant called Tom Yum Goong Otob. Various gangsters who are proficient martial arts artists are introduced sou the hero can demonstrate his martial arts skills as he pursues the elephant kidnapers. Kham learns the villains are stealing exotic animals like elephants to butcher them and serve them as food in a secret VIP area of the Tom Yum Goong Otob restaurant. Of course our hero rescues an elephant and brings the bad guys to justice. This movie proved very popular in Thailand and the world grossing about $25 million, making it a very popular martial arts movie and the highest grossing Thai movie of all time.
So you can see just like Shimmer, Tom Yum Goong is a soup and a movie, but this site is about the soup. Why not hang around, check out our recipe and make some? A hot, tasty bowl of Tom Yum Goong soup is a real treat. Try some today.
