I've made the coconut soup twice now. It just gets better! This time I used chicken and shrimp and more fish sauce and more lime juice (lemon is fine too). I think next time I'll try to find some fresh lemon grass, I used dried. Oh yeah, maybe I'll get some dried shrimp from the Asian store and toss a few pinches of that in. That shrimp flavor is great in there. Oh yes, I used canned mushrooms and water chestnuts in my last batch. The recipe is very flexible!