Traditional Soups for the Modern Soup Drinker
Soup Name: Lotus Roots with Mung Beans and Dried Octopus Soup
Traditional Chinese Name: 蓮藕綠豆章魚湯 (liánǒu lǜdòu zhāng yú tāng)
Introduction:
When making any dried octopus soup, this is the most basic and …
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Soups that relieve internal body heatiness and help cool your system and eliminate toxins.
Summer soups that help relieve heatiness, cool the body and provide additional internal moisture for those extra hot days.
Ingredient Name: Mung Beans (also known as mungbean, bean, mung, green gram, mung gram)
Traditional Chinese Name: 綠豆 (lǜdòu)
What is this?
The direct translation of this from Chinese means “green bean”
It is …
Ingredient Name: Dried Octopus
Traditional Chinese Name: 章魚幹 (Zhāng yú gàn)
What is this?
This is basically the dried preserved carcass of a small octopus (an eight-legged mollusc that lives in the ocean)
It …
Ingredient Name: Ginseng, American ginseng, panax ginseng
Traditional Chinese Name: 花旗參 (Huā qí cān)
What is this?
The brownish-beige ginseng is commonly grown in the United States (hence the name)
It produces a strong …
Ingredient Name: Baby Mussels (dried)
Traditional Chinese Name: 青口幹 (qīng kǒu gàn)
What is this?
A dried and processed type of salt of fresh water shellfish of the clam family with elongated shells
The …
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