Basic Chinese Chicken Soup Stock (Soup Base)

Dried and Sugared Whole Kumquat

Ingredient Name:  Dried and Sugared Whole Kumquat
Traditional Chinese Name: 桔餅(Jú bǐng)
What is this?

This is a pretty unique ingredient to soups, especially soups …

Fish Maw Chicken Egg Drop Soup

In the Chinese repertoire of soups, there’s a type of soup called a “gung” (羹) in Cantonese.   These soups are …

Turkey Pumpkin Soup

After 400+ posts, this soup is by far the simplest–yet still tasty–of all soups we have ever posted.  It has …

Vietnamese Sour Fish Soup

I love soups. I particularly do love sour soups as an appetizer because they really bring out my appetite! I …

Fresh Crab Congee

This crab congee is super easy to make! The key ingredient really is just the crab.  It’s a warming, traditional …

Fresh Crab

Ingredient Name:  Fresh Crab
Traditional Chinese Name: 蟹 (xiè)
What is this?

The crab is a crustacean with a short tail and typically two large …

Chinese Radish and Chicken Soup

With winter well on it’s way, I can’t think of a better way to warm up after returning home from …

Bitter Melon Soup with Corn and Pork Meatballs

I made this after work one day and managed to pick up fresh veggies and meat from the wet mart …

Quick Boil Pumpkin and Corn Vegetarian Soup

 
What started as a simple vegetable soup, turned into an interesting mix of hot and cold vegetables because I could! …