Light Asian Soup with Beef, Chicken or Shrimp · Faith Middleton's Food Schmooze

Ingredients

• 4 cups beef stock
• 2 tablespoons Asian fish sauce
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 4 ounces beef (sliced as thin as possible (sirloin works well))
• 1/2 cup red onion (thinly sliced )
• 2 cups rice noodles
• 1 plum tomato (thinly sliced)
• 1 bunch scallions (thinly sliced)
• 1 jalapeño pepper (sliced paper thin on a mandolin)
• 1 bunch cilantro (roughly chopped stems and all)
• 9 basil leaves (large)
• 9 mint leaves
• 2 limes (cut into wedges )
• 1 small bottle hoisin sauce