Recipes & Cooking : Soup

Chinese Chicken Noodle Soup

Chinese Chicken Noodle Soup

Happy New Year! What’s your new year’s resolutions for 2013? For me, health is the most important thing and it ranks the highest on my resolution list this year. As I grow older, I realize just how important health is. It’s something that we always take it for granted but it’s also someting that we can’t afford to lose. Wise…

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15-Minute Tom Yum Noodle Soup

15-Minute Tom Yum Noodle Soup

Who knew that Tom Yum Soup takes only 15 minutes to make? Yep, you heard it right, it takes as little as 15 minutes to make Tom Yum Soup, or in this case, Tom Yum Noodle soup, which is one of my favorite lunch dishes during week days. Like any busy moms, I don’t have a lot of time during…

Egg Drop Soup Recipe

Egg Drop Soup Recipe

Egg Drop Soup is a popular soup in the United States. However, I have never tasted a decent egg drop soup in the Chinese restaurants here, so much so that I dread and avoid Egg Drop Soup at all cost whenever I dine out. I frown at the sight of the goopy and MSG-laden soups served here. It all changed…

Winter Melon Soup

Winter Melon Soup

Winter melon soup is one of my favorite soups. I find it extremely nourishing and cooling, especially now that I am down with a cold. Winter melon has a very mild taste so it’s hard to make it into a flavorful soup unless you add in extra ingredients. Other than pork ribs, I boil my winter melon soup with a…

Nabe (Yosenabe/Japanese Hot Pot)

Nabe (Yosenabe/Japanese Hot Pot)

Fall is in the air, even here in Southern California. Days are getting shorter and cooler. These past few days, the sky has been dull and wintry and this morning, it rained. I start craving foods that keep me warm—soups, hearty stews, and hot pots. To me, nothing tastes quite as invigorating and uplifting than a meal of simmering hot…

Soto Ayam Recipe

Soto Ayam Recipe

Please welcome my friend F at Salt N Turmeric to Rasa Malaysia today as she shares her killer recipe of Soto Ayam with us. Soto Ayam is basically chicken soup and it’s very popular in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. There are various adaptations of Soto Ayam in the region but Salt N Turmeric’s version is simply scrumptious. If you wish…

Wonton Soup Recipe

Wonton Soup Recipe

(Chinese recipes, prepare authentic Chinese food now!) Last week, when I was atAppetite for China, Diana’s post about her trip to Hong Kong and her bowl of divine wontop soup had me gawked at my computer and then drooled all over my keyboard. A bowl of sinfully plump shimp wontons swimming in supreme stock, whispering “eat me eat me” in…

Seeking Thai Po Tak Recipe

Seeking Thai Po Tak Recipe

I am looking for the recipe of Po Tak, a sour and spicy Thai seafood soup. I had this slurpylicious Po Tak at “Spice I Am” at Surry Hills, a very popular Thai restaurant in Sydney. (I highly recommend this restaurant for authentic Thai food.) Po Tak tastes different compared to Tom Yum Goong; it comes in a clear soup…

Bak Kut Teh Recipe (Pork Bone Tea Soup)

Bak Kut Teh Recipe (Pork Bone Tea Soup)

(Originally published in 2006, this post is updated with new photos.) Bah Kut Teh or Pork Bone Tea is a Chinese soup dish. Infused with herbs such as Dong Quai, Cinnamon, Star Anise, and loaded with pork ribs, dried Shitake mushrooms, tofu puffs, and heaps of garlic, this soup fills the kitchen with evocative scents. Bah Kut Teh needs a…