Penang Malaysia Assam Laksa

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 pounds fish mackerel
• 8 cups water
• 5 pieces tamarind asam keping, peeled
• laksa noodles
• 15 dried red chilies
• 5 red chilies fresh
• 8 small shallots
• 1 inch galangal
• 2 tablespoons belacan shrimp paste
• 1 stalk lemongrass
• tamarind about golf ball size
• 1/2 cup water repeat 3-4 times
• 1 teaspoon salt or to taste
• 2 tablespoons sugar or to taste
• 1 cucumber julienned
• 1 bunch mint leaves use only the leaves
• 1 bunch leaves polygonum, /Vietnamese mint leaves/ daun kesom/daun laksa
• 1 torch ginger flower bungan kantan/, cut into small pieces
• 1 red onion sliced thinly
• 1 lettuce thinly cut
• 1 red chili /3-4 bird’s eye chilies, cut into small slices
• 1 pineapple small, cut into short strips
• prawn Heh Ko/, Paste