Definitions
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- noun A
Thai soup flavoured withfish sauce ,lemongrass ,lime juice , andchillies
Etymologies
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From Thai ต้มยำ (literally boil mixture)
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Examples
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Breakfast was complimentary, so we ventured out for lunch and dinner to the hole-in-the-wall Thai places, and had some amazing pad thai, green curry, tom yam, and fried rice, usually for pretty affordable prices.
back and polyphonized jlundberg 2008
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Please could you make the following perfectly: stir fry with interchangeable meat and veg, tom yam, some kind of take away style curry, Japanese salad dressing, gambas a pil pil.
The Guardian World News Felicity Cloake 2011
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