About Us
TheChineseSoupLady.com is a family project between sisters surnamed “Tong” (Lisa & Tracy). The word Tong (湯) literally translates to the word “soup” in Cantonese. In Hong Kong, people call us 湯 小 妹 which literally translates to “Soup Lady”.
When we were younger and trying to determine which utensils to lay out on the dinner table, we would ask our parents “Is there a soup for tonight?” and our parents would always say, “We are all soups!”
And more often than not, dinner did include a brothy, rich, nutritious and delicious chinese-style soup along with our dinner every night. Our parents would make sure that the soup they created suited our current needs based on the weather (winter / summer), our state of health, and also to balance the meal in terms of flavour and heatiness.
So it’s not surprising that as we grew up, moved out of our home, and were left to fend and cook for ourselves that we became interested in learning more about chinese soups, what they were good for, and how to make them ourselves.
Our soups are all natural and healthy. We strive for ingredients from its purest form and with some time and patience, you’ve got yourselves a homemade, ready-to-serve soup.
This blog is to share our learning journey with you.
Enjoy!
Publications:
April 2010 - Shanghai Talk: Chinese Soup Ladies
June 2010 - Foodista: Featured Blog of The Day
nicely done ! … will following regularly indeed ! People call you two 湯 小 妹 ?? haha I should start calling you two that as well.
Thank you for taking the time to do these posts. Growing up we always had soup at dinner and I never fully appreciated how much love went into cooking the right soup for the body for the different seasons and ailments. Now I am on my own and miss my mom’s delicious soups!
I am excited to try the recipes posted. Do you have the four flavor soup recipe? It is one of my favorites.
I really enjoyed reading the site. I forward it to a freind who just gave birth and she follows it.
Lilly, thanks so much for sharing and for the encouragement!
Hi,
I fully like your website. It is extrememly interesting.
My sister just sent me this site. Wonderful job. Am trying a recipe tonight. Since mom no longer lives in the same city and my family never gets out to Chinatown, I’m left with occasionally trying to make Chinese soup from a distant memory. This helps a lot. All I have to worry about is finding enough ingredients from our Canadian supermarkets.
Cheers.
Norm
P.S. Would appreciate a heading of “seasonal soups”.
Lisa & Tracy,
Thank you so much for sharing. This site is very well done - informative & precise. Keep up the great job.
Cindy Chang
Malaysia
Thank you so much! As a Chinese American, I find it hard to try and cook and make soup the way my mother does. For one thing, I’m just not that talented in the kitchen, and I’m quite unfamiliar with many Chinese soup ingredients. Your website is so awesome with explanations of many ingredients and the recipes are easy to follow. Thank you once again! I love this site!
This is a really great website for me! Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom and experience online!
Good job! Thanks again!
Wow.. thanks for the website!
I was wondering why my left over hairy melon soup tasted sour…and there was the information on your website!
Thanks for the recipes and information.
I look forward to cook more soup!
Love your website. The search option is great. I had trouble finding literature written in English about the benefits of different types of soups. This is just wonderful! Thank you!
Happy Lunar New Year! Thank you for this great great website. I’m already sharing it with my friends. Keep up the good works and I’m looking forward to more yummy recipes from you.
Really good site! love all the recipes and pictures. Looking forward to more recipes
Thank you so much for such a wonderful site - very informative! The pictures are great along with the descriptive explanation of the ingredients. Keep up the great work!
I love this website and was wondering if you would consider adding or take contributions of all other soup recipes to your site? For example, our parents sometimes make soups because I have a headache or soups to increase “blood circulation”, etc. Is there a possibility of including an indication of heatiness and/or a small definition of what that means? I’ve married a non Asian but would like for my children to know that concept or have a good reference (since I am not that knowledgeable myself). I am also curious to know what part of China these recipes come from? We are of the Toi San culture and was curious to see the similarity or difference, if any, between “villages”. Lastly, I haven’t looked around yet but I was thinking of posting a similar sight like yours but for chinese home cooking! If you know of one, please let me know. Thank you ladies for a great site! Isabel
I just happened across your site when I googled “fish stomach”. Thankyou for your generous sharing of your soup recipes. Your site is what I’ve been looking for to make some traditional chinese soups for my family! Since I have just looked at only a couple of the pages on your site so far I know I will be coming back to check it more often now that I know it’s here. I really like how when I just click on the herb name, the picture of the herb comes up. This in itself is worth many thanks from me as I know what the herb is but I don’t know the name of it. Thanks again for your wonderful site! I will return!
Great site! Like you I’ve also been fending for myself for the past few years after leaving my family, and I’ve been craving Chinese homestyle soup for the past year. I’m slowly picking up my skills but now I’m glad to have found this site. I’m definitely coming back to get more recipes and tips. _SF
I stumbled on your website, looking for Chinese soups as I am a soup fantic. Wow! I am enjoying every page and link! Thank you so much for doing such an awesome job! The best way to connect and feel Chinese:) Lols
I think your website is fabulous! I love soups! Expecially Chinese Soups. Have you published a book that I can purchase with all your receipes and what the ingredients are good for? I am looking for soups in order to fall pregnant. Do you have any? Looking forward to hearing from you, Laurienne Calvert (nee Kwaan) South Africa
Dear Lisa & Tracy, Thank you for having this website. I found this website by accident while searching for soup recipes online. The recipes posted here has been informative and great. I live in Jakarta, Indonesia where the pollution is terrible. I was getting sick quite often. Eversince I started making some of the soups from this website where I am able to find all the ingredients, I feel my health is better (probably because am getting better nutrition now). Thanks also for posting the photos of the ingredients. I have been promoting this site to family, friends and staff. This is a really great site. Please keep up the good work. Best Rgds, Angelica
I just stumbled upon this wonderful site while searching for variations of the winter melon and pork soup recipe. And what a find it was!! This website is a true treasure. It’s very difficult for those of us who grew up with these delicious home-made soups to find a good reference when we’re living in a western country.
Keep it up!
Hi There, Just wanted to say “Thank you” for putting this site up. This is awesome!
Thank you for all this great information. I’m trying to recreate some of the medicinal soups of my youth for my children, and this website has been so helpful.
I’ve spent the past couple days browsing the internet for “soup recipes” and I must say, you all’s site is one of the best! You have a nice clean layout (with few ads!), and nice clear pictures. I have included this site’s recipes in the custom search engine I have created for soup recipes. May you continue to have success!
-Jack Somers
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