Blog Posts - Chinese Soup

Soup Name: Red Dates Hawthorn Tea Traditional Chinese Name:  山楂红枣茶 (shān zhā hóng zǎo chá) Introduction: This nice slightly sweet and very tart tea was introduced by my herbalist who suggested I make it ...

Soup Name: Vegetables and Dried Octopus with Mung Beans Soup Traditional Chinese Name: 雜菜綠豆章魚湯 (Zá cài lǜ dòu zhāng yú tāng) Introduction: When it rains, the Chinese like using beans to absorb moisture from the body. ...

Soup Name: Black Silkie Chicken with Vegetables and Chestnuts Traditional Chinese Name:  黑雞蘿蔔玉米栗子湯 (hēi jī luó bo yù mǐ lì zǐ tāng) Introduction: Black silkie chickens aren’t the most appealing animals to look at, b...

  It’s almost peaking into the hot, stuffy season of summer in Hong Kong and like most Asian countries (by the ocean), it becomes undeniably hot and sometimes humid. Soups in this ...

The first time I tried Burdock Root or Gobo (牛蒡) was a salad in a Japanese restaurant in Taiwan. The Gobo was sliced so razor-thin and fine (thinner than matchsticks!) and the salad was really refreshing good as appetizer. Though I usually see B...

Soup Name: Chicken Feet and Wintermelon Soup Traditional Chinese Name:  冬瓜雞腳湯 (dōng guā jī jiǎo tāng) Introduction: The feet of the chicken are one of the Chinese’s most interesting “unwanted” parts of the ...

I have seen it many times especially in the health grocery stores, but it never made its way into my grocery cart until today. Noodles! Huh? That's ordinary! Well, not your ordinary wheat, rice or egg noodles but these tofu-based shirataki-style n...

  Soup Name: Chinese Red Bean Soup Dessert, Chinese Red Bean Soup, Red Bean Dessert, Red Bean Soup Traditional Chinese Name:  紅豆沙 (hǒng dòu shā) Introduction: This is a traditional Chinese dessert and a popular ...

The last time I cooked silkie black chicken soup was last year around the same time period of Jan/Feb (winter months). This time, dried red dates and dried longan were added for sweet warm notes. The two ingredients together with sweet gojiberri...

Soup Name: Dried and Fresh Bok Choy in Pork Broth Traditional Chinese Name:  菜乾白菜湯 (cài gān bái cài tāng) Introduction: This cooling soup is really sweet and delicious! With a combination of dried and ...

Shanyao root 山藥 or huái shān (淮山) or in Cantonese it's called wai san is a kind of wild root sold relatively cheap and abundant sold in any Asian market in New York City.The official name is called as "Dioscorea op...

Dish Name: Macaroni with Fish and Lobster Balls in Fish Broth Introduction: Using the broth and ingredients of my “Pumpkin, Corn and Chinese Yam in Fish Soup“, we boiled macaroni and various “balls” ...

Soup Name: Pumpkin, Corn and Chinese Yam in Fish Soup Traditional Chinese Name:  南瓜玉米魚湯 (nán guā yù mǐ yú tāng) Introduction: This simple and slightly sweet soup is really ideal for kids and children. ...

Though the idea is not exceptionally wild or creative, this is (indeed) my first time having Gai Lan (in) Soup. And you know what? I will cook this soup again when stir-fried Gai Lan (Chinese broccoli) gets boring once in a while. Truth is: the sam...

Never be stingy on tomatoes, here I said. An aura of insecurity fills the the kitchen one day.... Not a single tomato at home! NOOOooo.....!!! It's like losing the ability to cook! A little exaggeration maybe but truly, I feel comfortable when t...

Today is the Dōngzhì Festival or Winter Solstice Festival which falls during the 11th lunar month. Chinese people mark the occasion by eating Chinese dumplings "Dong Yuen" a sweet soup with balls of sticky rice because its name sounds like ‘reuni...

Bean Thread Noodles or Mung Bean Vermicelli (also known as glass noodles or cellophane noodles) are not made from a grain flour but from ground mung beans.When dry these noodles are translucent, very thin and wiry like nylon fishing line, and difficu...

Can we cook two stir-fries, combine the two veggie stir-fries and just like toppings over noodles -  consequently make it veggie noodle soup? Bok Choy, Oyster Mushrooms, Carrots, Napa Cabbage over the noodles Arithmetic, yet an equation not e...

This soy milk based Nagaimo, Tofu, Mushrooms soup can transform too! And here it goes: Tofu, mushrooms, Nagaimo (Mountain Yam) and that magic black vinegar makes this new version spicy and sour soup! A tangy mild-spicy vegetarian soup that can satis...

I intended to post an entry a week ago but while I was drafting our electricity went off because of Hurricane Sandy.We're living in dark for 6 days but luckily our home and life has been back to normal now..Our weather at Northeast is super cold now.

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