The last time I have chicken herbal soup seems eons ago. My mom would always boil the best soup for me. Now, who is going to make this soup for me? So I took out the crockpot, which hasn’t been used for a long time. Remove all the stains, fix the loosened electric plug, and …
Old cucumber soup with pork ribs is among the most familiar soup on the Cantonese dining table. I grew up eating this soup prepared by my mother. Now it is my turn to prepare it for my family. I use meaty pork ribs and some dried scallops, and cuttlefish as the main ingredients. I keep …
WHAT IS TOM YUM SOUP? This tom yum soup recipe is my favorite, which I will show you how to prepare using tom yum goong (spicy soup with shrimp) as an example. Tom Yum soup is the most famous Thai soup in the world for a reason. Although it looks deceptively unpretentious, it is packed …
In this article, I will explain how to prepare my favorite home-cooked Chinese vegetable soup with carrot and radish. This Chinese vegetable soup is a regular dish for my family, which previously was cooked by my mother and recently myself. We used slightly different ingredients for the soup but still share a few similarities. First, …
This winter melon soup recipe 冬瓜汤 is the adaptation of my mother’s recipe, which she cooked for our family when I was young. I love the subtle flavor of winter melon and the aroma of dried shiitake mushrooms. This soup just hit the bullseye, and I missed it so much since I am no longer …
I was brought up in a Cantonese family with soup for every dinner without fail. Lotus root soup with pork is the best among a variety of soup served by my mother. Over the years, I have tasted many variations of lotus root soup, but none of those can beat the time-tested traditional lotus root …
Egg drop soup recipe 蛋花汤 is the easiest Chinese soup recipe to prepare. Chinese restaurants usually have high-quality soup stock as the base of the soup. However, we do not have this luxury at home. But there is a workaround way. In this article, I want to share with you how do I prepare egg …
Do you want to make the miso soup that rivals any Japanese restaurant at home? I have the miso soup recipe for you. What is Miso soup? Miso soup 味噌汁 is a warm and comforting Japanese soup prepared with a soup stock (Dashi) and miso paste. It is the soul food for the Japanese which …
Chinese hot and sour soup 酸辣湯 is a traditional northern Chinese favorite packed with the acidity of Zhenjiang vinegar, the spiciness of the white pepper and the nuttiness of sesame oil. The flavor becomes even more complex with the inclusion of bamboo shoot, dry mushrooms, wood ear fungus and finishes with a beaten egg pour …
Have you tried Chicken and corn soup, Chinese style before? There is a nostalgic feeling evoked my childhood memory whenever I made this soup. My mother used to cook this often, constitute the creamy soup directly from a can of cream corn. She only took twenty minutes to prepare it, much quicker than most of …