Tom Kha Soup
| Tom Kha Soup | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Dish |
| Recipe | Sandy (Mail - 7+) |
| Buffs | Farming (+2); Max Energy (+30) |
| Buff Duration | 7m |
| Sell Price | 250g |
| Energy | 175 |
| Health | 78 |
Tom Kha Soup is a coconut and shrimp soup that comes from Sandy, the shopkeeper at the Oasis in the Calico Desert. She mails the recipe once friendship with her reaches seven hearts. The soup restores a large amount of energy and health. Its buff raises Farming and stretches the energy bar for several minutes. It sells for more than its three ingredients, and Elliott and Penny both love it. The ingredients come from the desert, the sea and the autumn woods, so the first bowl takes a little planning.
The in-game description reads: These flavors are incredible!
Recipe
Sandy sends the recipe by mail at seven hearts of friendship. In her letter she says the desert is boring and asks for a visit. Sandy lives and works at the Oasis, so getting to know her needs the bus to the desert repaired first. Completing the Vault bundles at the Community Center fixes the bus. On the Joja route, the Joja Community Development Form sells the repair instead.
Regular visits with gifts are the way to seven hearts. Sandy loves Crocus, Daffodil, Sweet Pea and Mango Sticky Rice. The flowers in particular are cheap and easy to forage.
Cooking a Coconut with a Shrimp and a Common Mushroom makes Tom Kha Soup.
Coconuts lie on the sand in the Calico Desert. The Oasis also sells them on Mondays. Later in the game, shaking the palm trees on Ginger Island drops more.
Shrimp come from Crab Pots placed in salt water, such as the ocean at the Beach. A pot can catch several kinds of sea creature, so Shrimp turn up only some of the time. A row of pots along the shore raises the odds of a steady supply.
Common Mushrooms are a Fall forage item all over the valley. The Secret Woods grows them in Spring as well. Fall is the easiest season to cook the soup, because fresh mushrooms turn up everywhere and Coconuts and Shrimp are around all year.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Coconut | 
|
1 |
| Shrimp | 
|
1 |
| Common Mushroom | 
|
1 |
Effects
Tom Kha Soup restores a large amount of energy and health in one bowl. Its buff raises Farming by two levels and adds 30 points to the maximum energy bar for several minutes.
Raising the Farming level makes better-quality crops more likely at harvest. A bowl right before picking a large field therefore brings in more silver and gold crops. The extra room in the energy bar suits a long day of watering, hoeing and harvesting.
Complete Breakfast gives the same Farming boost with an even larger energy bonus. It needs four ingredients, three of them cooked dishes. Tom Kha Soup is the simpler of the two once the ingredients are on hand.
Only one food buff can be active at a time. Eating another dish with a buff replaces the Farming bonus. Drinks use their own slot, so a Triple Shot Espresso can run alongside the soup for extra speed in the fields.
Prices
Tom Kha Soup sells for more than its three ingredients would earn if sold raw. That holds even with the plainest ingredients. The Coconut accounts for the largest share of the cost. The profit per bowl is modest, so most farms keep the soup for gifts and busy farm days.
Gifts
Elliott and Penny love Tom Kha Soup. Both of their birthdays fall early in Fall, just as Common Mushrooms appear across the valley. A gift on a birthday counts eight times as much as usual, so a bowl on the day makes a big jump in friendship.
Abigail, Alex, Caroline, Clint, Demetrius, the Dwarf, Emily, Evelyn, George, Gus, Haley, Harvey, Jas, Jodi, Kent, Leah, Lewis, Linus, Marnie, Maru, Pam, Pierre, Robin, Sam, Sandy, Sebastian, Shane, Vincent and the Wizard like it.
Krobus, Leo and Willy dislike it.
These villagers love receiving Tom Kha Soup as a gift.
| Villager | Image |
|---|---|
| Elliott | 
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Notes
In tailoring, Tom Kha Soup in the Sewing Machine makes the Oasis Gown.
Krobus sometimes sells Tom Kha Soup on Saturdays, and it can show up in the Stardrop Saloon's rotating stock. The Garbage Can outside the Saloon occasionally holds a bowl, and a Mystery Box can contain one.
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The Queen of Sauce 21 Winter, Year 2 | 210g |
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The Queen of Sauce 14 Spring, Year 1 | 345g |
| Complete Breakfast | 
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The Queen of Sauce 21 Spring, Year 2 | 350g |
| Cookie | 
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The Queen of Sauce 21 Fall, Year 2 | 275g |
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The Queen of Sauce 28 Winter, Year 1 | 175g |
| Cranberry Sauce | 
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| Dish O' The Sea | 
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| Fish Stew | 
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| Fried Calamari | 
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Jodi (Mail - 3+) | 150g |
| Fried Eel | 
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| Fried Egg | 
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The Queen of Sauce 21 Summer, Year 1 Stardrop Saloon for 300g | 220g |
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The Queen of Sauce 7 Spring, Year 2 Stardrop Saloon for 150g | 300g |
| Plum Pudding | 
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| Poi | 
|
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|
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| Tom Kha Soup | 
|
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|
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