Winter melon soup is a popular home-cooked Chinese dish when winter melons are in season (late summer through fall). It’s also probably the most popular application of winter melon in China. Winter melon soups are often made with pork ribs, meatballs, and seafood like shrimp and clams. We have already published a meatball soup with
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Category Archive: ‘Soups & Stocks’
This simple tomato potato soup is a summer staple, with just 5 ingredients (plus water). It’s a light snack or side dish that replenishes your body with fluids and salt on those sweat-inducing hot days! A Simple Childhood Soup from Shanghai In our cookbook, I shared stories of my childhood encounters with food while living
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This Chinese chicken noodle soup is an easy traditional noodle soup you can make any day of the week. It’s often served as a birthday noodle soup, topped with 2 fried eggs! While people normally make it with a whole chicken, our recipe uses chicken leg quarters for ease. Chinese Chicken Noodle Soup vs. American
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Duck noodle soup is a simple, yet extremely flavorful dish you can make with very little time. It’s also a great way to use up leftover Cantonese roast duck. For a quick meal, keep leftover roast duck in your freezer, so you can whip up this soup whenever you need it! A Go-To Woks Family
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This Cantonese ho fun noodle soup with char siu is a tasty, simple recipe that makes a great lunch or quick weeknight dinner. It’s great if you have leftover char siu or pre-made char siu from a roast meat joint or Chinese market. If you don’t have char siu, or don’t eat pork, you can
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This Chinese black chicken soup recipe is made with silkie chicken, which has black skin and has long been thought to have medicinal properties by practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). It also happens to be delicious! This black chicken soup has a clear broth with a pure, rich chicken flavor. What Is a Black
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Today, we’re sharing my grandma’s recipe for chicken wonton soup, with a chicken wonton filling. I’ve had countless bowls of delicious wonton soup served up to me by both my grandma and my mom. It’s Chinese comfort food—or really comfort food, period. Growing up, there was always a batch of wontons in the freezer, making
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Four Herbs Soup, or sì shén tāng (四神汤), got its name from its use of four Chinese medicinal herbs: dried fox nut barley, lotus seeds, Chinese yam, and poria cocos mushrooms. You may also see this recipe translated as Chinese Four Spirits Soup or Four Gods Soup. A Very Traditional Chinese Herbal Soup Recipe Four
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