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Old Cucumber Soup (Lou Wong Kwa) with Red Dates
I love my soups and soups always make a useful addition to a meal or can even form a meal in itself. Besides many Chinese soups have health benefits too like the old cucumber. The old cucumber or old yellow cucumber (Lou Wong Kwa - cantonese) is said to be “cooling” and beneficial for health. [...]
Steamed Healthy Soups at Pudu, Kuala Lumpur
Being Chinese, I enjoy my bowl of herbal soup now and again. But I don’t always have the time to boil it when I get back from work because a good soup would need at least an hour of boiling for the herbs to truly release their flavour. So, when I discovered this stall selling [...]
Nutritous Burdock and Carrot Herbal Soup
I browsed through a magazine at Borders last week, that featured burdock and carrot in a soup. I’d never thought of this combination before, so I decided to try it! Its really really easy which suits me quite well.
Burdock is an edible root that the Chinese will know as “wai san”. I always have a [...]
Chinese Rice Wine Chicken with Vermicelli (Ang Chiew Kuay Mee Suah)
Chinese Rice Wine is made from fermenting glutinous rice (pulut). This rice wine is then used variously for cooking and drinking. I only ever use it to cook with and a firm favourite is Ang Chiew Kuay Mee Suah or Rice Wine Chicken with Vermicelli. This is a traditional Chinese favourite and is also commonly [...]
