A simple and easy Chinese boiled soup but packs with nutrition ~ Black Beans Red Dates Soup. Ingredients need are easily obtained from grocery stores or supermarkets. Another black beans soup recipe -> Black Beans & Pig Trotter Soup Ingredients (Serve: 3-4) 400g pork ribs/pork soup bones/chicken 200g black beans 10-12 red dates, de-seeded Handful of wolfberries (Goji) 2500ml water […]
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Are you a fan of thick soup? Chinese style thick soup, to be precise, for example hot and sour soup (酸辣汤). Many restaurants or homemade version are normally thickened the soup using cornstarch or potato starch, rendering a thick and starchy broth, which I don’t really fancy of. Today, I’m going to share an easy thick soup recipe with a “magic […]
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Chinese Yam 山药/淮山, or nagaimo in Japanese, is a one of the species in yam family. Native to China and East Asia, this edible tubers are cultivated largely in Asia and sometimes used in alternative medicine. This species of yam is unique as the tubers can be eaten raw. (Source) Chinese Yam can be purchased fresh as a vegetable root or dried as Chinese […]
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Japanese Clear Clam Soup or Asari No Sumashijiru in Japanese is another simple recipe to be added into my clam recipes collection. Recipes will be listed out at the end of this post. Only a few ingredients are needed for this fast and easy soup dish and the result is lightly flavoured broth with fresh umami taste from the Kombu […]
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I believe many of you are scratching your head thinking what on earth is this ‘Night Blooming Cereus’! It sound really “alien” to me too when I googled about its English name. Night Blooming Cereus, 霸王花 Ba Wang Hua in Mandarin or Ba Wong Fa in Cantonese, is the common name referring to a large number of flowering ceroid cacti […]
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