shrimp laksa

Ingredients

• - 1 3⁄4 cups milk, coconut, canned
• - 1⁄4 cup cream, coconut, canned
• - 1 cup vegetable stock
• - 1⁄4 cup vermicelli rice noodles
• - 1 pepper, sweet red, cut into thin strips
• - 1 cup bamboo shoot, sliced, canned, drained and rinsed
• - 1⁄16 cup ginger (2 inches)
• - 4 scallions, coarsley chopped
• - 2 tablespoons curry paste, red
• - 2 tablespoons fish sauce
• - 1 teaspoon golden brown sugar
• - 6 sprigs basil, use thai if you can find it...much stronger flavor
• - 16 shrimp, jumbo, unshelled, cooked