In a medium saucepan, bring chicken stock to a rolling boil. Add pork. Let mixture return to a boil, breaking up pork with a fork as it does. Reduce heat to low. Stir in the cooked rice. Cover and allow to simmer up to five minutes - stirring occasionally. Add nam pla to taste. Increase heat and bring soup back to boil.

(Warning from Mr Breakfast: This next step isn't recommended from a food safty standpoint. It's the authentic way to make this Thai dish. You may want to play it safe and pre-poach your eggs to assure they are fully cooked.)

Take 2 serving bowls and carefully break a whole egg in each dish. Ladle boiling soup over the eggs.

Add any of the following ingredients according to your tastes: Thai chili, ginger, green onion and/or cilantro.

Cover the bowls and allow soup to stand for two minutes.


Basically a thick and spicy chicken soup over poached eggs, kao tom is a traditional breakfast dish in Thailand.

Mr Breakfast would like to thank chinho for this recipe.

Recipe number 1631. Submitted 1/15/2006.

Overall Average Rating = 4 (out of 5)

Based on 4 votes.

From pennyhomestay (Team Breakfast Member)

Recipe Rating (out of 5):

I like to add chopped fresh veggies.

Comment submitted: 4/14/2012 (#13793)



From The scope

No, they actually do eat these types of meals for breakfast - much different from the American style - they eat all kinds of food during each meal.

Comment submitted: 11/4/2011 (#13110)



From needhelp

I don't think this is a breakfast dish so please could you put a traditional breakfast on the web page because I need it for my gcse studies.

Comment submitted: 6/20/2011 (#12844)



From Aspen

This is more kind of a lunch dish I think.

Comment submitted: 4/21/2010 (#10356)



From lalalalaa

I am gonna try this as soon as I get home! It luks reli nice!!!

Comment submitted: 9/11/2008 (#6432)



From zakman (Team Breakfast Member)

Recipe Rating (out of 5):

By Zakman - I agree w/ 41 yr old Aussie - I am 54 yr old Serb - What is the issue w non-fully cooked eggs - providing no cracks in shell or fecal matter if farm eggs? And other than provide large choices at awesome prices what is wrong w/ Safeway?

Comment submitted: 11/18/2007 (#4018)



From Bluenose

Recipe Rating (out of 5):

Hey, Ozzie - you have to look at what some of us have done to chickens over the last 20 years. I'll eat my omelettes bacuse anytime, and I love my Steak Tartare, but having seen some the chooks in cages in the Far East, I'd be hard pushed to eat a half-raw egg. And Aussie cage-laid eggs ? Give the chooks a break and do yourself a healthy favour, don't buy them, even when they outnumber normal eggs 20-1. I hate safeway, and the rest ............. grrrrrr

Comment submitted: 4/30/2007 (#2301)



From 41 Year Old Australian

Recipe Rating (out of 5):

Geez, what is the problem with eating a non-fully cooked egg, what are they doing to your eggs?

I am a 41 year old Australian in Australia and eat eggs every day and can't stand fully cooked eggs. I am aware of salmonella and never use an egg that has a crack. But gee whiz. Never heard that warning before.

Comment submitted: 3/19/2007 (#1884)

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