Coconut Noodles

Ingredients

• 1/2 pound chicken, boned, skinned and cut into 3/4-inch cubes
• 1 teaspoon fish sauce
• Sea salt
• 1/4 cup peanut oil
• 1/4 teaspoon turmeric
• 1 small sweet onion, finely chopped
• 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 1/2 teaspoon sweet paprika
• 20 1-inch cubes fish cake, deep-fried
• 5 cups chicken broth
• 1/4 cup roasted chickpea flour
• 23 cup coconut milk
• 13 peeled shallot lobes, one of them finely sliced and soaked in water
• 3/4 pound boiled spaghetti-size egg noodles
• 2 hard-boiled eggs, thinly sliced
• 2 scallions, sliced
• Handful of deep-fried rice noodles
• 1 lime, cut into wedges
• Red chilies, roasted in a pan and then coarsely ground