The Chinese Soup Lady & Chinese Soup Recipes

Pork Ribs

LadyTong — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:22:00 +0000

Ingredient Name: Pork Ribs (Fresh) Traditional Chinese Name: 豬肋骨(zhū lèi gǔ) What is this? Pork ribs is the part of the pork where the ribs are (usually in the upper chest cavity area) This cut ...

Arrowroot and Water Chestnuts Vegetarian Soup

LadyTong — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:06:10 +0000

Soup Name: Arrowroot and Water Chestnuts Vegetarian Soup Traditional Chinese Name: 馬蹄粉葛湯 (mǎtí fěn gé tāng) Introduction: This soup is great for heated bodies and sore throats. It is mildly cooling, but extremely ...

Voice Recovery Tea

LadyTong — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:39:33 +0000

Soup Name: Voice Recovery Tea or “Lost Voice” Tea Traditional Chinese Name: 開聲茶 (kāi shēng chá) Introduction: This drink is literally called “Open Voice Tea”. I’m not posting the ingredients to this tea ...

Vegetarian Snow Pear and Corn Soup

LadyTong — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:04:16 +0000

Soup Name: Vegetarian Snow Pear and Corn Soup Traditional Chinese Name: 雪梨玉米湯 (xuě lí yù mǐ tāng) Introduction: This simple, clean and very sweet soup is great for people with sore throats or ...

Dried Salted Fish

LadyTong — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:40:56 +0000

Ingredient Name: Dried Salted Fish Traditional Chinese Name: 鹽魚 (yán yú) in Cantonese What is this? A dried fish that is preserved in salt (carried down from many centuries of tradition and food ...

Walnuts and Cashews in Pork Broth

LadyTong — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:11:16 +0000

Soup Name: Walnuts and Cashews in Pork Broth Traditional Chinese Name: 合桃素湯 (hé táo sù tāng) Introduction: This interesting soup is mainly composed of round stuff (little nibbles of things) like nuts and ...

Cashews

LadyTong — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:29:59 +0000

Ingredient Name: Cashews Traditional Chinese Name: 腰果 (Yāoguǒ) What is this? The edible seed of the cashew fruit (of the cashew tree) The cashew nut is mildly sweet and crunchy in texture The cashew nut ...

Walnuts

LadyTong — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:01:37 +0000

Ingredient Name: Walnuts Traditional Chinese Name: 核桃 (Hétáo) What is this? The edible seed of any tree in the genus Julgans (tree nut family) The edible portions are found inside a very hard, brown ...

Ladies’ Monthly Tea

LadyTong — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:15:15 +0000

Soup Name: Ladies’ Monthly Tea Traditional Chinese Name: 女性恩物湯 (nǚ xìng ēn wù tāng) Introduction: My herbalist recommended this “special ladies’ drink” or tea because I complained about an irregular period and serious ...

Chuanxiong

LadyTong — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:28:18 +0000

Ingredient Name: Chuanxiong, Szechuan lovage, lovage Traditional Chinese Name: 川芎 (Chuānxiōng) What is this? A fundamental herb in Chinese medicine This herb belongs to the carrot family, is native to East Asia and is ...