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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!
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...
Quick Boil Chinese Soup Tips
So I've had various enquiries as to what constitutes a great quick boil and what are some tips I use for quick boils. It started out as a conversation with a colleague who said "I don't have time to make these old fire Chinese soups!", and I thought, well... there is...
Featured on CNN Article “Eat your way around the world”
Today, TheChineseSoupLady.com and her @instagram account TheChineseSoupLady was featured on CNN's "Eat your way around the world"! I must say that I am grateful and thrilled! My sister and I have actually been maintaining this site since 2006 since the birth of my...
Zojirushi Mini Thermal Pot (Experiment)
A friend informed me of a new mini "food jar" or also known as "Thermal pots" that is very popular in Hong Kong these days. For starters, this jives with me because: I love thermal pots and their heat saving efficiency I love anything that can make soups I love...
Chinese Soups for Spring!
It's almost Spring time! Can't you feel the warm sun on your face? Can't you feel gentle wind without that bitter, cold bite? Spring is a unique season - well, there are only 4 - so that's pretty unique already. What makes Spring so different is one key thing...
The Art of Drying Tangerines
Who would have thought that dried Tangerines preserved for over 50 years could cost in the thousands (of Hong Kong dollars)? The dried tangerine peel is a popular Chinese herb and ingredient used in: soups stews desserts (or sweet soups) marinades snacks teas...
Chinese Confinement: The Early Days
The journey for Chinese Confinement #7 started about 4 days ago. This page is about Chinese Confinement in the early days. True "body-recovering" doesn't actually happen until past days 10-12. That's when you take out the heavy artillery. For now, the...
Chinese Soups for Fall!
They say that it's dry in the fall. It's only a prelude to how really dry it will can get in the winter, but already your body needs moisturizing and supplements. Soups in this category are meant to: Help transition the body from hot to cool Help provide...
New milestone of 100K pageviews per month!
I just want to happily broadcast that TheChineseSoupLady.com is now enjoying (for the first time) over 100K (yes, one hundred thousand) pageviews per month with October 2011 being the first month and November steadily on target to go beyond that! I've taken a screen...
Featured in eChinaCities.com – Virtual Bite: Best Chinese Food Blogs
It's always nice to be featured around the blogosphere, so here's another that we've found to share with you. You can find the post here: Virtual Bite: Best Chinese Food Blogs We are 1 out of 7 featured blogs on the best Chinese food blogs. Thanks for the...
Tom Yum Koong – Somboon Seafood Restaurant (Bangkok, Thailand) Review
Soup Name: Tom Yum Koong Soup Restaurant: Somboon Seafood Restaurant (Bantadthong Branch) Location: Bangkok, Thailand Price: I'm sorry, I can't remember because it was just so darn tasty (I'd estimate around 150 baht) Serves: About 8 small Chinese bowls worth My...
My Confinement Story
You may have noticed that over the past few months we have been posting many pregnancy and confinement soup recipes to this site. As this blog closely follows the soups we are making for ourselves and for our families, you've probably already guessed that we have had...
Moroccan Sweet Potato, Carrot and Chickpea Soup
To my readers: Project Food Blog is a competition hosted by foodbuzz to find the ultimate food blogger. I am an active participant - here’s my profile and this is my second challenge. I know that this is not a Chinese soup - but the challenge called for something...
Featured Blog of The Day On Foodista.com on June 9, 2010
TheChineseSoupLady.com is going to be featured as the Blog Of The Day on June 9, 2010 at Foodista.com! It's a great recognition in the foodie community and it's part of our success to have readers worldwide appreciate and support our foodie cause. So a continued...
Shanghai Talk Magazine Feature
We're being featured in the April 2010 issue of "Shanghai Talk" Magazine in Shanghai! The magazine is a local magazine that is produced for English readers in Shanghai and we're featured in the HEALTH TALK section. It's pretty amazing how far reaching a soup...
Winter Ailments and Remedies
The Chinese believe in proactively treating and nourishing the body according to seasonal changes. Using specific ingredients and creating the right soups can help to counteract any negatives effects the weather may have and prevent ailments from developing. ...
Pork in Chinese Soups
The Chinese use pork in an amazingly large amount of dishes and soups. You can explain this from a historical stand-point. Pork was the most readily available type of meat available and you were lucky at that to have the meat. So it makes sense that Chinese dishes...
Discovering a World of Soups
As I began to expand my repertoire of soup knowledge, I learned a host of information from multiple sources about the benefits and techniques of making soups. Even though I am Chinese, the science of Chinese soup is not something you are born with. On second...
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