Thai-Inspired Tomato Noodle Soup with Shrimp

This is a simple soup that uses mung bean or rice noodles, Asian fish sauce, and chile-garlic sauce, all of which are readily available in any Asian market and increasingly in large supermarkets with ethnic food sections. For the chile sauce, Lee Kum Kee brand from Hong Kong is widely distributed. You can also certainly substitute other noodles like Japanese soba or even angel hair (capellini). Since these take longer to cook, prepare them ahead (follow package directions) and add to the so