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Basic Chinese Chicken Soup Stock (Soup Base)

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Soup Name: Basic Chinese Chicken Soup Stock (Soup Base)

Traditional Chinese Name: 清雞湯 (qīng jī tāng)

Introduction: This is the base Chinese Chicken Soup stock that …

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Rock Sugar

Submitted by LadyTong on December 25, 2008 – 3:52 am2 Comments | 17,908 views

Ingredient Name: Rock Sugar (also known as Rock Candy)

Traditional Chinese Name: 冰糖 (bīng táng)

What is this?

Type of confectionary composed of large sugar crystals compiled together
Rock sugar comes in a variety of colours such as varying tones of yellow of clear (as pictured above)
It is more natural and not as sweet as granulated sugar
Often used in Chinese desserts

How do I prepare it?

Preparation is not needed, simply use as is out of the bag
You may need to break it up into smaller pieces

Where can I buy this?

In any supermarket, they come prepackaged in bags
You can also purchase this from wet marts in Hong Kong in bulk

What is the cost?

You can purchase this for around $15 – $20 CAD / pound

Any benefits?

Rock sugar is said to be a healthier substitute for granulated, processed sugar
It is more natural than refined sugar

Any precautions?

Over consumption can lead to fatigue and imbalance of sugar in the blood and potentially cause diabetes
Use sugar in moderation

Our family’s concept of healthy and delicious soups excludes sugar. I never put sugar into my soups as there is enough from the dried fruit that you’re using as your soup base. This is required if you are boiling a sweet soup – that I call dessert.

2 Comments »

mitsuki says:

April 2, 2011 at 12:44 am

hi!

my family an i went to this asian buffet in queens last week. i saw this soup and tried it and it was really good unfortunately there was no name of what soup it was. so i was hoping if you have an idea of what it was. it was a warm clear soup, in light brown color and it was sweet. it has like a melon in it and dates and some kind of clear white seaweed? i’m not sure what it was really. it also has a floating nut, like peanut but i’m not sure. i hope you know know what i am talking about.

thanks a lot!
JW says:

August 30, 2011 at 9:37 pm

I think its this dessert called Cheng Teng. You can google the name.

http://www.grouprecipes.com/2610/cheng-teng-dessert.html

http://ellenaguan.blogspot.com/2011/06/dessert-cheng-teng.html

🙂