Herbal

Nutritous Burdock and Carrot Herbal Soup

by Paris B on August 22, 2008

in Boil, Chinese, Easy Recipes, Light Meal, Non-Halal, Pork, Soup, Vegetables

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 [...]

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Sweet Chinese herbal drink for a cough

by Paris B on June 25, 2008

in Boil, Chinese, Easy Recipes, Non-Alcoholic

My poor little sister was having a very bad cough recently and was taking medication for it. However, there was some remnants of the cough that wouldn’t go away, so I undertook to boil some herbal drink (“leung sui” Cantonese) for her. I picked up a ready made pack of herbs at a Chinese traditional [...]

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Steamed pork ribs with red dates and dong kwai

by Paris B on June 7, 2007

in Chinese, Easy Recipes, Non-Halal, Pork, Steam

Ooh! I didn’t know that sis posted about healthy food in the previous post. Here’s another healthy steamed dish I whipped up one evening when I was trying to get a little creative. It probably isn’t new but this is my version of steamed pork ribs with red dates and dong kwai. You need: pork [...]

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