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It never fails that if you go to a wet mart in Hong Kong and ask the vegetable vendor or the meat vendor or your neighbouring old granny purchasing her daily produce about what soup to make, you’ll be imparted with a wealth of knowledge that will turn into a 2 hour small group sharing session and walk away with 8 months worth of soups to create!
What’s the best way to blanch meats for Chinese Soups?
WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO BLANCH MEATS FOR CHINESE SOUPS?(Do you use cold water? Boiling water? With ginger? With instant coffee? With salt? What's the best way for flavour and taste experience?)One guiding principle in Traditional Chinese Medicine is the yin yang...
Hong Kong Styled Russian Borscht Soup
Soup Name: Hong Kong Styled Russian Borscht (with oxtail) Traditional Chinese Name: 羅宋湯 (luó sòng tāng) Nature: Warming Taste: Savory, sweet, and slightly sour For more videos, you can follow us on YouTube. Did you know the secret ingredient to an HK-styled...
What are good replacement ingredients for peanut allergies in Chinese Soups?
Here are suggestions for replacement ingredients for peanuts in Chinese soupsOne guiding principle in Traditional Chinese Medicine is the yin yang theory. In the natural world, there exists a balance between 2 opposing and co-existing forces and yet, they also exist...
Healing Chinese Chicken Herbal Soup with Fish Maw
Soup Name: Healing Chinese Chicken Herbal Soup with Fish Maw Traditional Chinese Name: 花膠雞湯 (huā jiāo jī tāng) Nature: Warming Taste: Sweet and savory For more videos, you can follow us on YouTube. The star of this soup is FISH MAW. This takes collagen to the...
Delicious One Pot Vegetable Vermicelli Soup for Dinner
Soup Name: Delicious One Pot Vegetable Vermicelli Soup for Dinner. Literal translation from Chinese is "Mixed vegetables vermicelli pot soup". Traditional Chinese Name: 雜菜粉絲鍋湯 (zá cài fěnsī guō tāng) Nature: Neutral Taste: Sweet and savory For more videos, you...
ABC Soup in a Collagen Rich Salmon Head and Chicken Feet Broth
Soup Name: ABC Chinese Soup in a collagen rich Salmon Broth (with Chicken Feet) Traditional Chinese Name: 雜菜蕃茄三文魚湯 (zá cài fānjiā sānwènyú tāng) Nature: Slightly cooling Taste: Sweet and savory For more videos, you can follow us on YouTube. Taking collagen to...
5 Tips for Exercising in the Cold (from a Traditional Chinese Medicine Perspective)
5 Tips for Exercising in the Cold (from a Traditional Chinese Medicine Perspective)One guiding principle in Traditional Chinese Medicine is the yin yang theory. In the natural world, there exists a balance between 2 opposing and co-existing forces and yet, they also...
Turn leftover rice into a delicious, warming congee with shrimp and yams
Soup Name: Shrimp Congee with Fresh Yams and Lettuce Traditional Chinese Name: 蝦粥 (xiā zhōu) Nature: Neutral Taste: Sweet For more videos, you can follow us on YouTube. Want something easy? Want something delicious? This is the perfect lunch to make in 30 minutes...
Making a Delicious Lotus Root with Vegetables in Pork Broth Chinese Soup (with Roasted Fresh Peanuts!)
Soup Name: Making a Delicious Lotus Root with Vegetables in Pork Broth Chinese Soup (with Roasted Fresh Peanuts!) Traditional Chinese Name: 蓮藕豬骨湯 (Lián'ǒu zhū gǔ tāng) Nature: Neutral Taste: Sweet For more videos, you can follow us on YouTube. For this post, I made 6...
Warming Chicken and Coconut Herbal (Healing) Chinese Soup
Soup Name: Warming chicken and coconut herbal (and healing) Chinese soup Traditional Chinese Name: 椰子雞湯 (yē zi jī tāng) Nature: Warming Taste: Slightly sweet and savory For more videos, you can follow us on YouTube.Oh! This soup! It delivered - and more!! Warm with...
What basic equipment do I need to get started in making Chinese soups?
WHAT EQUIPMENT IS NEEDED TO MAKE AMAZING CHINESE SOUPS? Theoretically, a giant pot is all you need. I mean, my ancestors certainly did it that way! But of course, with technology and innovation comes a suite of tools that help us save effort, time, and resources in...
Here are 5 ways to prepare meats for Chinese soups!
HERE ARE 5 ways to PREPARE MEATS for CHINESE SOUPS!What's all that "stuff" floating around in my soup? Almost all bones and bone-in meats will have a little something extra extra.One guiding principle in Traditional Chinese Medicine is the yin yang theory. In the...
What soup to make? Here’s how I decide what Chinese soups to make…
HOW DO YOU KNOW WHICH SOUP TO MAKE? HERE's MY DECISION MAKING PROCESS WHEN DECIDING WHAT SOUP TO MAKE!There's no exact science to this, but guided by a combination of 4 factors that I consider: The consumer, conditions, preferences, and external factors. One guiding...
Making Vegan Chinese Soup for Freezing
Soup Name: Vegan Green Radish Carrots and Corn Chinese Soup for Freezing Traditional Chinese Name: 紅青蘿蔔湯 (hóng qing luóbo tang) Nature: Cooling Taste: Sweet and savory For more videos, you can follow us on YouTube.This is a series of "MAKING FROZEN CHINESE SOUPS" for...
Homemade do-it-yourself Hot Pot for Dinner!
Soup Name: Homemade do-it-yourself hot pot for dinner! Tonight, is a tomato soup base. Traditional Chinese Name: 番茄火鍋 (fān qié huǒ guō), aka in Cantonese, DA BEEN LO! Nature: Warming Taste: Sweet and savory For more videos, you can follow us on YouTube.Here are the...
Did you know rice water is amazing for your skin?
Did you know rice water is amazing for your skin? Integrate it into your skincare routine today! Rice is known to be antiaging, anti-inflammatory, whitening, photoprotective, and moisturizing!One guiding principle in Traditional Chinese Medicine is the yin yang...
Amazing soup making and kitchenware on Temu! Come unpack with me!
AMAZING SOUP MAKING AND KITCHENWARE FINDS on TEMU!I've recently discovered Temu and the shopping experience is AMAZING! Their kitchenware, soup making, and cooking equipment is vast, affordable, and some innovation products! Come explore haul #1 with me. I've...
Is your fish too fishy for soups? How to use fish in Chinese soups
Is your FISH too fishy for your soup? HERE's How to use Fish in CHINESe SOUPS Thank you for your questions! These make great topics for me to explore further and share my love of making soups and the best way to do it! So if you have any comments or questions, or...
Warming Chinese herbal tea for cold days (post run hydration)
Tea Name: Warming red dates, longans, and red and black wolfberries Chinese herbal tea (which I use for post cold day runs). In fact, I also add this into a thermal flask for the car post colder rides (which is like mid September in Toronto!). Where's Hong Kong...
How to meal prep Chinese soups in batch (for rice cooker or stove top)
I have no time! I still want delicious Chinese soup! I want something easy! You got it! When I did my initial "experiment" on testing the rice cooker to make Chinese soup, I honestly didn't know what to expect - BUT... it turned out amazing! And then, it got me...
Making Chinese Soup in a Rice Cooker! Trying ABC Chinese Soup!
Tea Name: ABC Chinese Soup (in a Rice Cooker!) Traditional Chinese Name: ABC湯 (ABC tāng). The easiest name in the Cantonese repertoire for ABC vegetable soup is 雜菜湯 (zá cài tāng), which literally translates to mixed vegetable soup. Nature: Neutral Taste: Sweet For...
How Emotions and Organs are Connected in Traditional Chinese Medicine
How Emotions and Organs are Connected in Traditional Chinese MedicineAND HOW TO USE FOODS AND TEAS TO SUPPORT A HEALTHY BALANCEIn Traditional Chinese Medicine, there is a connection between your emotions and your overall wellness. A balanced emotional state in the...
Chinese Herbal Tea Ideas for Traveling!
Chinese Herbal Tea ideas for Traveling(A TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE PERSPECTIVE)When we think Traditional Chinese medicine or herbal teas, we think of something that's hard to make, difficult to drink, and full of unknown ingredients. However, there also exists is...
Coughing? Stuffy Nose? Congestion? Try this Chinese Herbal Tea with Licorice, Cinnamon, and Luo Han Guo
Tea Name: Chinese Herbal Tea with Licorice, Cinnamon, and Luo Han Guo Traditional Chinese Name: 止咳茶 (zhǐké chá) - direct translation here is "anti-cough" tea. There are many teas that have earned the right to this label, so it's just easier to use it as such instead...
Fragrant Vegetables in Salmon Soup
Soup Name: Fragrant vegetables in salmon soup (Cantonese-styled) Traditional Chinese Name: 雜菜蕃茄三文魚湯 (zá cài fānjiā sānwènyú tāng) Nature: Slightly cooling Taste: Sweet and savory For more videos, you can follow us on YouTube.Tomatoes in a fragrant fish broth is a...
A Chinese Herbal Tea to Nourish, Heal, and Strengthen the Lungs
Tea Name: Nourishing, Healing, and Strengthening Chinese Herbal tea for the lungs (and cooling) Traditional Chinese Name: 羅漢果雪梨茶 (luó hàn guǒ xuě lí chá) Nature: Cooling Taste: Sweet and sour (You can read this article on the impact on your body of different food...
Cooling Snow Pears and Apples in a Chrysanthemum Tea
Tea Name: Cooling Snow Pears and Apples in a Chrysanthemum Tea Traditional Chinese Name: 雪梨蘋果菊花清熱茶 (xuě lí píng guǒ jú huā qīng rè chá) Nature: Cooling Taste: Sweet and sour (You can read this article on the impact on your body of different food tastes!) For more...
Japanese Inspired Vinaigrette (for Beef Carpaccio or Salad)
Sauce Name: Japanese inspired vinaigrette (for beef carpaccio or salads or as an appetizers) Nature: Warm (which is primarily the vinegar) Taste: Sour and bitter and slightly sweet Targets: Liver and stomach For more videos, you can follow us on YouTube.Yes! ...
6 Practical Applications of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Every Day Life
6 PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE IN EVERY DAY LIFE(A TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE PERSPECTIVE)Practicing and living in Traditional Chinese Medicine concepts isn't hard! It's actually all about what you consume, when you consume it, your...
Green radish with carrots & corn in a Chinese herbal pork broth
Soup Name: Green radish with carrots & corn in a Chinese Herbal Pork Broth Traditional Chinese Name: 紅青蘿蔔湯 (hóng qing luóbo tang) Nature: Cooling Taste: Sweet and savory For more videos, you can follow us on YouTube.My parents came home last night from a cruise...
Hot and slightly spicy Korean Kimchi and Tofu Jjigae (soup)
Soup Name: Korean Kimchi and Tofu Jjigae (Soup) Nature: Cool (although could be warmer depending on how spicy you make it, but this is driven by the cooling white radish and tofu) Taste: Sweet, Salty For more videos, you can follow us on YouTube.I know there's a...
How food flavours affect your health from a Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective
HOW FOOD FLAVOURS AFFECT YOUR HEALTH(A TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE PERSPECTIVE)There is a Chinese Medicine phrase that states "Food and Medicine come from the same source". If you think about it, it totally does! All of the ingredients found within Traditional...
Korean dashi soup (base) for making any soups!
Tea Name: Korean dashi soup (base) Nature: Cool Taste: Sweet, Salty For more videos, you can follow us on YouTube.I learned this from a Korean Auntie that I have in Toronto, which has a huge and beautiful Korean community in the area I live in. And even if you go...
Oh how I love thee, my salted orange! Let me count the ways…
Tea Name: The Salted Orange Traditional Chinese Name: 鹽蒸橙子 (yán zhēng chéngzi) Nature: warm Taste: sweet, salty For more videos, you can follow us on YouTube.What? Salted oranges? Let's start by saying that if you see a Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor (and even...
Pu’er Chinese Tea: A Traditional Chinese Medicinal Perspective
A PU'ER Chinese (TEA) LOVE STORYChinese pu'er tea: Why I love it! As part of my overall health regime.One guiding principle in Traditional Chinese Medicine is the yin yang theory. In the natural world, there exists a balance between 2 opposing and co-existing forces...
How Different Styles of Chinese Soups are Made
YOUR GUIDE TO THE DIFFERENT STYLES OF MAKING CHINESE SOUPSIs there a benefit to low or high intensity?What is a measurable property of intensity?What happens if you under or over cook? All great questions! Read more to explore the answers to these questions.There are...
Sweet Rice Cakes for Chinese New Year’s!
Happy Chinese New Year's!! Wishing you and your family a very happy, healthy, and beautiful year of the rabbit!! As a tradition, the Chinese will eat what's called "New Year's Cake". It's basically sweetened rice and glutinous rice flour pan fried until soft and...
How to check if you’re improving your blood circulation?
HOW TO CHECK IF YOU'RE IMPROVING BLOOD CIRCULATION? I'm always curious about metrics and measuring success or at least measuring progress. What started as an initial recommendation from my Chinese doctor to do foot soaks to improve circulation, turned into a full...
The Hong Kong Grocery Shopping Experience
The Hong Kong Grocery Shopping Experience!I love the diversity of grocery shopping in Asia, especially in Hong Kong! You've got so many choices, market types, and variety! Part of the beauty of being in Hong Kong is this exact accessibility to a lot of the Asian...
How to Prepare for Sleep (with TCM Concepts)
HOW TO PREPARE FOR SLEEP (USING TCM CONCEPTS) Learn to prepare for better sleep and how you can transition your body and mind from a yang to a yin state as evenings nears and you're preparing to go to bed. Learn some simply Traditional Chinese Medicine concepts and...
Tips and Tricks for Making Amazing Chinese Soups
TIPS AND TRICKS FOR MAKING AMAZING CHINESE SOUPSThere are so many little tips and tricks in the school of Chinese soup making that it's incredible! And, it seems that different regions in China also have different tips and tricks! I love how there's a wealth of...
Using TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) Concepts for Chinese Soups
AN INTRODUCTION to YIN and YANG in OUR EVERYDAY SOUPS AND FOODYes, that ever so common Cantonese phrase "yeet hay"! Well, did you know, that yeet hay actually means, excess yang? Although sometimes, it could be mistaken as yin deficiency. And there are actually...
Your guide to COOLING and WARMING ingredients in Chinese Soups
Your guide to COOLING and WARMING ingredients in Chinese SoupsDid your parents or grandparents ever tell you that you're too "yeet hay" (heaty) and would make you a cooling soup or tea or drink, such as watercress soup or winter melon and then go on to explain that it...
Using Amazing Substitutes for Meats in Vegetarian Chinese Soups
When you want to go meatless, but don't want to trade off flavour! For more videos, visit us on YouTube.There are so many options when you want to replace meats in Chinese soups! I try to keep the flavour profile of the soup without compromising it with the...
What’s the Best Chinese Comfort Food? Hot Homemade Congee!
Growing up, I've had many variations of this watery Chinese porridge called "Congee" (aka, the 粥 in Chinese). And all of them, are memories of home and comfort. I don't know what it is about this dish, but the simplest of ingredients, the white rice (there are also...
A Chinese Delicacy: How to Prepare Dried Fish Maw (or Fish Bladder)
Have you ever walked by those Chinese herbal or dried food shops and wondered what those fairly large beige bubble things were? I certainly did growing up and just always found it foreign until I was introduced to it in foods, soups, and stews and told how expensive...
Cooking Chinese Soups With a Thermal Induction Pot
I could not contain my excitement when I got my new Thermal Induction Pot! Check out the video above for the unpack and how to use it.For more videos, visit us on YouTube. What makes this pot so special? Due to its engineered induction design, the pot itself will...
7 Basic Chinese Soup Pantry Ingredients
What do you do when you move half way across the world?Rebuild my Chinese soup pantry! For more videos, visit us on YouTube.Check out the video for what ingredients I used for my basic Chinese soup pantry ingredients. I keep these stocked all year round and...
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