
Dried and Fresh Bok Choy in Pork Broth
Dried and Fresh Bok Choy in Pork Broth
Tea Name:
Dried and Fresh Bok Choy in Pork Broth
Traditional Chinese Name:
菜乾白菜湯 (cài gān bái cài tāng)
This soup is cooling in nature and sweet to taste.
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This cooling soup is really sweet and delicious! With a combination of dried and fresh bok choy, it’s a basic soup with minimal ingredients. You can adjust the “coolness” of the soup by adding more or less ginger, but it’s great to help fight off fever, a heaty body, an inflamed tongue, a mouth full of cold sores or canker sores. Really, no salt needed – just be sure to rinse and wash the dried bok choy super well, or you’ll have lots of added protein (the little flies that always seem to be embedded during the curing process!).
Bok choy is the cooling ingredient in this soup. It’s one of the cooler ingredients relative to its cabbage cousins and targets the stomach and large intestines. It’s also a great for clearing excess water and detoxifying the body, including aiding in digestion.
Dried bok choy is more salty (and even sweet) relative to it’s fresh counterpart. It’s actually super tasty and they have the same properties (even when dried!).

What’s involved?
Prep time: 15 mins
Cook time: 1 hour 30 mins
Total time: 1 hour 45 mins
Serves: 6 bowls of soup
Ingredients
500 g of fresh pork shank
100 g of fresh bok choy
50 g of dried bok choy
6 large dried dates
3 slices of fresh ginger
20 g of apricot kernals
Cooking Instructions
- Blanch the pork shank in a pot of boiling water for 5 minutes. Drain and set aside.
- Soak the dried bok choy in warm water for 15 minutes
- Rinse the dried bok choy in running water 2-3 times (to remove the dried bugs that get embedded during the curing process)
- Boil you soup water
- When the water boils, add all the ingredients together
- Boil on high for about 30 minutes and set to medium boil (covered) for another hour
- Serve and enjoy!