Bún Riêu (Vietnamese Crab, Pork & Tomato Noodle Soup)

Ingredients

• shallots
• neutral cooking oil
• tomatoes )
• fermented shrimp paste - Lee Kum Kee
• fish sauce
• salt
• rock sugar
• ketchup
• chicken broth
• water
• monosodium glutamate seasoning
• shallot )
• raw shrimp
• ground pork
• ⅗ oz canned minced prawn
• steamed or canned crab
• large eggs
• pepper
• sugar
• stalks green onions
• deep fried tofu
• raw bean sprouts
• bunch kinh gioi / Vietnamese balm
• bunch mint
• bunch tia to / purple perilla
• shrimp paste on the side
• sliced limes
• thai chiles
• dried rice vermicelli sticks )