A very simple, healthy and slightly sweet soup to make that is ideal for all seasons and weather.  The ingredients are all very neutral, although the mushrooms aren’t the easiest ingredients to find, but you’re welcome to used the dried version instead or other mushrooms such as shiitake mushrooms (or Chinese mushrooms) or shimeji mushrooms.

This soup is relatively neutral because of the pork bones, corn, and mushrooms.  The chayotes are slightly cooling, but in general, aren’t extremely cooling (like winter melon or other melons). 

You can learn more about cooling and warming ingredients in Chinese soups to help you design the soup you need for your personal conditions and balance, and weather!  

• 1 pound of fresh pork bones
• 1 bunch of fresh mushrooms (Agrocybe Aegerita)
  
• 3-4 fresh chayotes
• 2-3 fresh corn
• 3 L of water
• 1 teaspoon of salt (to marinate the pork)

1. Pre-marinate the pork bones overnight with the salt (although this step is not necessary)
2. Boil your soup water
3. Blanch pork bones in a separate pot of boiling water
4. Wash and soak mushrooms
5. Wash, cut and cube chayotes and corn
6. When the water boils, add all the ingredients together
7. Boil on high for thirty minutes, reduce to a simmer boil for another 2 hours
8. Serve!