Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Home-cooked: herbal soup from scratch

What you need:

  • Chicken bones
  • Dang shen (tung sam or poor man’s Ginseng)
  • Seedless red dates
  • Kei chi (Goji berry or wolfberry)
  • Dried longan
  • Wai san (Chinese yam, Japanese mountain yam or Korean yam (Radix Dioscoreae Oppositae)
  • Fook san – can’t find the alternative name in English but it’s the curled up pieces in the bowl

Bring a pot of water to a boil. Add in all the ingredients and bring it to a boil in medium heat. Once boiling, lower the heat to low and let it simmer for an hour or two. Serve while it’s still hot. Easy peasy.

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