7 Basic Chinese Soup Pantry Ingredients

by LadyTong | Jan 4, 2022 | Featured Articles, Videos | 3 comments

7 Basic Chinese Soup Pantry Ingredients

What do you do when you move half way across the world?

Rebuild my Chinese soup pantry!

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Check out the video for what ingredients I used for my basic Chinese soup pantry ingredients. I keep these stocked all year round and constantly filled because that’s how useful they are! You’ll find at least 2 or 3 of these in each of my basic soup recipes! You can buy these at your local Chinese supermarkets or herbal shops.

For the all ingredients shown here:

Dried Red Dates

Dried Chinese Yam

Dried Longans

Dried Wolfberries

Dried Apricot Kernals

Large Dried Dates

Dried Scallops

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