Spicy Pickled Bamboo Soup with Fish

Since I came here in Italy (2 years ago) For some reasons I never made this dish at all :( even it is the one of my favorite. Why??? I can't find any answer :D  but finally I did yeah yeah! The dish is really E-San style ... we don't use coconut milk as much as the central (I think not at all) The taste is similar to Tom Yum, the sour is not from lime juice but from the pickled bamboo shoot. 

Ingredients :
150 g. fish (any kind you like)
200 g. pickled bamboo shoot
500 ml. fish broth
lemon basil
fish sauce
sugar
Paste (the ingredients for the paste is in below)

I use the one in the plastic bag

Paste

5 cloves of garlic

2 shallots

5-10 dried chilies (depend on how spicy you like)

3 sliced Galangal

Ground everything in a mortar or food processor 

Clean the pickled bamboo shoot with water 2-3 times

These are the lemon basil, it is the one of many Thai basils we have

if you see it close you will see lot of white hair under the leave

How to cook : 

1. Put 500 ml. of fish broth in the pot, when it boiled then put the paste and wait until it boiled again.
2. Put fish and wait until it cooked. I suggest not to stir it because we believe the soup will smell fishy. 
3. When the fish cooked, try the soup and season with fish sauce and a bit of sugar. I put a bit of pickled fish sauce because I love the taste of it :) Very E-San style.
4. Put lemon basil and shut the fire of. It's ready to serve! 

Thank you for your attention, I hope you enjoy it more or less ;) See you next recipe soon!