In China, it is common to have one soup for a meal. Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of Ming Dynasty stipulated that courtiers must economize on food and gradually people have a rule of "four dishes and one soup" for a meal. Nowadays this rule has changed a lot, but for a normal family meal of 3 to 5 people we normally keep four dishes and one soup on table. Vegetarian Soup The vegetarian soup is very easy to make. Egg is common ingredient in Chinese soup recipes. Putting vegetable into boiling water first and then pouring in egg mixture is the common method for making Chinese homemade soup. The tomato and egg soup, seaweed and egg soup, and spinach with egg are typical home cooking soup. Also, we have bok choy (Chinese cabbage) as one of the common vegetables to cook, sometimes meat and zha cai are added. Miso soup is a famous soup from Japan, contains seaweed and tofu boiling with miso. And Kimchi is one of the typical Korean food used a lot in Korean cuisines. The kimchi tofu soup sometimes with pork, is flavored as sour and spicy because of the kimchi. Broth As I mentioned last week we have various types of broth, fish soup (sometimes with tofu), ribs (other ingredients can be added), and chicken (medicinal crops can be added for more nutritious, such as ginseng, angelica sinensis, goji, cordyceps flower, and red dates). Korea also has the famous ginseng chicken broth. These nutrient broth need to be cooked for relatively long time so the soup will be tasty. Another simple soup made with bok choy and meatball also is popular in Chinese households. Thank you for your reading for this week! You may want to start cooking Asian soup with the vegetarian ones because they are easier. The broths are delicious but take a lot of time, thus my mom usually make broth once a week. And we usually use the leftover broth as the soup for noodles. Miss my mom's cooking! Share your asian dishes with me! See you next week.
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Rachel Mileon
3/18/2017 09:53:06 pm
Hmmmm I will definitely try the vegetarian soup, sounds delicious especially the broth soup as well since they are different type of recipes that are included. Both sound very tasty 😋😋
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Yuqing
3/29/2017 07:39:19 pm
Try to make some of these recipes at home and tell me what you think. I created playlist of these cuisines in my Youtube, it is very easy to follow. Click the button at the bottom of the post.
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3/21/2017 08:42:00 am
Interesting post ! Now a days we are watching the growth of vegetarian people around the world , I can say that from my friends in Brasil, so here are more options for those people who decided not eat meat .
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Yuqing
3/29/2017 07:37:25 pm
In China we have various choices to make combination of food, even only vegetables. I think we eat much less meat than people eat here
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3/21/2017 09:28:21 pm
Great post! I would love to try the vegetarian soup, the miso soup really caught my attention! I think I would also like the pork ribs broth. Everything just looks so good!
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Yuqing
3/29/2017 07:43:05 pm
Thank you! Try to follow the videos to make one at home, you will never know how it tastes until you try it.
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Abby Christy
3/22/2017 01:30:10 pm
I just had miso soup the other night and it was so good!! I for sure have to try the others, Im a huge soup fan lol Thanks for the background with your culture and the tradition of soup in meals I learned some new things! Maybe I will even try making me own!
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Yuqing
3/29/2017 07:41:09 pm
I'm so glad you had tried the miso. Try to make it by yourself, also try the others that your are interested in.
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Yasshin Lozano
3/23/2017 03:50:50 pm
I have tried miso soup at some of our local Japanese restaurants and it was delicious. I plan to make one of these soups even thought it will take time it will be worth the wait. Great post.
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Yuqing
3/29/2017 07:45:46 pm
Every time I go to Japanese restaurant, I must order one miso. I like that too. Once I have my own kitchen I will make by myself. It is very easy.
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