Soup, glorious soup...

[micollh]

starlight1968sg:

Yes, boiling soup is very simple & easy. Just dump all the ingredients (amount: aka aka would do) and boil.
Add more ingredients, the soup will be very tasty. I hardly add salt etc.

BTW, where do you buy dried cuttle fish? You may replace by fish maw; also very nice.

for me, no additional salt or anything, cos we drink daily, and the kids drink too. i bought the dried cuttle fish from wet market, those grocery shops. after last week, i thk i will go and buy again:)

[Augmum]

Happy Mama:

Augmum:

[quote=\"Happy Mama\"]
If you want, you can also add the black beans as it has high nutritive value. You may want to add in a few pieces of dried cuttlefish or dried oysters or dried scallops to make it even sweeter. Mmm, yummy! :love:

actually , i luv balck beans with pig's tail soup......
but my family always complain that this soup is too heaty, so seldom boil it.
black beans....good for blood circulation and also heard that it's good for darkening of our hair.

Yes I know black beans are good for blood circulation, but didn't know it's good for darkening our hair. [/quote]Yes, black beans are rich in essential amino acids, Vitamin E, saponins, and other nutritional components.
so suppose to help in skin's elastin and hair revitalising, besides good for blood circulation.

other black anthocyanin foods includes black sesame seeds, seaweed, dark mushrooms, black chickens, blackberries.

[Augmum]

micollh:

just share, over the weekend, i boiled raddish soup with the dried cuttle fish, my mum recommended. it's delicious. i did not use any chicken bones/pork ribs.. just that dried cuttle fish , riddish cut in chunks, wolfberries and red dates.. boil for 2 hours..can try for varity

QuiteKSMum:

Sounds easy (since no bones stk req), micollh. Will give it a try one day. Err...how much cuttlefish to put? Put for the full 2 hrs?
Thanks in advance!

ya, by adding some dried cuttlefish, makes the soup more tasty.
i'll still use big bone with some chicken feet, even with added dried cuttlefish as
too much cuttlefish wil spoil the original taste of the soup

try get the bigger cuttlefish, instead of the small ones,
the small ones are not that tasty when boiled with soup.
i buy 墨鱼 (mò yú).
it can go with raddish, lotus root, old cucumber soup....etc.

[QuiteKSMum]

Thanks, Augmum for the additional tips!

[Augmum]

QuiteKSMum:

Thanks, Augmum for the additional tips!

u're welcome, quiteksmum.
the bigger ones are avail mostly in wet markets instead of supermarkets.
or those bigger provision stalls selling dried products in neighbournood estate.

[QuiteKSMum]

Got it! :salute:

[bebebub]

I like all kinds of herbal soup, but will discard the herbs and only drink the soup. Where can I buy those \"bag\" where I can put all the herbs in instead of letting the herbs float around in the pot? Or is this \"bag\" not a good option since it is like boiling \"cloth\" :?

[heyhoe]

You can get it from Daiso.

[superkiasuparent]

anyone knows any place that sells good soup without msg and all that?

[jce]

NO MSG…that’s difficult to find unless you’re dining at fine Chinese restaurants. There’s a chain called "lau huo tang" popping up at various food courts, very popular. Never tried. Even if some say "no MSG", indirectly they could have added through other sources like chicken essence powder.