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This past holiday season, I ate a lot, in fact, way too much. After all those festive meals, heavy big-fish-big-meat (大鱼大肉) and crazy seafood consumptions, I crave for something very simple, homey, and economical–and this lotus root soup came to my rescue…
Recently, when I was dining out at a Cantonese-style restaurant and had their daily soup (老火汤), I saw these dried honey dates (蜜枣) in the residue of the soup. After much asking around, I learned that this is the secret ingredient that Cantonese cooks use when they make their soup. (Cantonese people, especially those in Hong Kong, are famed for stewing up very tasty soups.)
The secret ingredient sure didn’t disappoint. I have never made such savory soup before. The taste of the pork ribs complimented the sweetness of these dried honey dates and the end result was a very light, pleasing, and refreshing soup that I just couldn’t stop sipping.
It’s time to take a break from fancy meals; it feels (and tastes) really good to be back to the basics.
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Neth
Wuaw, i didn’t know that this soup has a really basic & simple ingredients. I love this soup so much!!! But not sure what is the ingredients. Reminds me of healing & healthy!!! Definetely will try soon! And btw I love ur website so much , u always give me an inspirations about cooking, as im pretty lame about it =p I just joined your facebook page, didn’t notice u have one=p Keep up the good work!!!
Tiff
Thanks heaps for the recipe!
What is dried honey dates in chinese?
Thanks for ur help.
kala thulung
i just loved the recepies
Berna
My MIL always makes this when we go back to KL to visit her. After 17+ hrs of traveling on a plane it is comfort food for me. Thanks for sharing this recipe! I created this on Monday and my hubby loved it! Both my 3 yr old and 1 yr old loved it as well and they are picky eaters! I did a recipe review on this and posted it for today. I look forward to trying more of your recipes. Your site is very helpful for someone who doesn’t really know any Chinese-Malaysian recipes but wants to learn to satisfy a husband’s craving for his own native land’s food.