Category: Soup

Shallot, is a variety of onions which has different outer layer color from golden brown to rose-red, and the inner flesh is pulpy white, with some green coloring.   Shallots are particularly rich in minerals, vitamins and trace elements. They also contain phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, manganese, iron and copper. They are rich in vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), which plays an important role in […]

Cordyceps Flowers (Cordyceps Militaris) 虫草花, a type of parasitic fungus and its medicinal value is similar to that of the much more expensive Cordyceps Sinensis 冬虫夏草. It is thought to provide an array of therapeutic benefits such as protect the lungs, nourish the kidney, increase blood production, anti-depressant, anti-aging and anti-bacterial properties. It is also known medicinally to be a strong anticancer […]

What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when mention about dried rose buds? Flower tea, I’m sure, right? What if I tell you dried rose buds can be used to boil soup? Yes, I’m as surprise as you when I stumbled upon this recipe in one of my cook books and it really ignited my interest to try […]

Take less than 15 minutes to prepare, Seaweed Egg Drop Soup 紫菜蛋花汤, certainly one of your best choice if you want a quick soup dish on a weeknight. The seaweed used in the soup is a particular variety of dried seaweed called Zi Cai (紫菜). It is usually sold in disc shape plastic packaging like the above picture and can be […]

Learn this from a cooking Youtube channel [Biao Di Hao Zhu Yi 表弟好煮意] which has been live streaming his cooking demonstration for 365 days on daily basic since last year March (during MCO1.0 period). He is still continue to share his cooking (3 dishes per day) now on his channel at 5.30pm (if I remember correctly :P), if you’re interested […]