Chef's Recommendation
Lentil and Job's Tears with Chicken Feet
Effects: Strengthening the spleen to eliminate dampness, soothing and revitalizing
Materials: 40 grams of chicken feet, 10 grams of lentils, Job's Tears 7 grams, ginger, appropriate amount.
Practice: first of all, the chicken feet to remove the clothes and wash cut off the toenails, and then the lentils and barley clean, and then together with the chicken feet and ginger into the stew pot.
Chef's comment: the ingredients for this soup must be fresh. For example, you can't use chilled chicken feet because it will affect the flavor of the soup. The overall feeling of this soup is relatively fresh and sweet.
Chef's Recommendation
Small Tripe with White Fruit and Job's Tears
Effects: moistening the lungs, strengthening the spleen, and removing dampness
Materials: 30 grams of small tripe, 6 white fruits, 7 grams of Job's Tears, and an appropriate amount of ginger.
Practice: wash the pork belly after flying water, cut into strips, and then with the washed fruits, Job's tears into the stew pot, but also add a piece of ginger.
Chef's comment: the flavor of the soup is relatively mellow and sweet.
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Tang Pork Ribs with Chinese wolfberry head
Effects: tonifying the deficiency and benefiting the essence, clearing heat and brightening the eyes
Materials: 60 grams of pork ribs, 10 grams of Chinese wolfberry head, 3 grams of Chinese wolfberry, half of the honey dates, ginger.
Practice: first of all, the spare ribs will be cleaned slightly fly water chopping pieces, with clean water to wash the head of wolfberry and wolfberry. Then put all the materials into the stew pot.
Chef's comment: choose the ribs to pick the Tang chops, do not pick the meat chops, because the meat chops are fattier, stewed when the soup is more greasy. This soup carries a stronger meat flavor and is sweeter.
Chef's Recommendation
Kudzu Stewed Raw Fish
Effects: nourishes Yin and clears heat, strengthens the spleen and promotes dampness
Ingredients: 50 grams of raw fish, 15 grams of kudzu, 2 grams of jujubes, and an appropriate amount of ginger.
How to do: process the raw fish and remove the viscera, clean and chop the pieces, rinse the kudzu with water, and then put all the ingredients into the stew pot.
Chef's comment: kudzu should be soaked in clean water for a while to avoid pests. This soup has both the fresh flavor of fish and the fresh feeling of kudzu.
Seasonal soups
The Four Seas Restaurant offers a number of seasonal soups, and the chef has selected a few to briefly introduce to you.
Chef's recommendation
Lily, mulberry and green fruit stewed duck
Effects: clearing away heat and dampness, strengthening the spleen and nourishing the face Ingredients: lily, mulberry, green fruit, duck (female)
Chef's comments: mulberry has a better effect of clearing away heat and dampness. Lily is purchased from Qinghai, wild lily is said to have beauty effects. Green fruit is actually Taiwan green dates, also has the effect of eliminating dampness. The reason why old ducks are chosen to be female rather than male is because folklore has it that females are milder and males are hot and dry.
Chef's Recommendation
Tang Chop Stewed with Cordyceps and Red Soybeans
Effective: clearing the heart and lowering the fire, diuretic and eliminating dampness Ingredients: Cordyceps, red soybeans, Tang Chop
Chef's Comment: Cordyceps is a common plant in the field, and is commonly used by Cantonese to make herbal tea. Adzuki beans are used to harmonize the flavor, while Tang Pai adds fresh flavor. The practice is relatively simple, you can also try to do at home. This soup tastes of the plant's fresh flavor.
Chef's Recommendation
Fresh Poria Stewed with Tortoise Board
Effective: cool the blood and detoxify the toxin Ingredients: Fresh Poria, Snake, Tortoise Board
Chef's Comment: Poria is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine, which is good for strengthening the spleen and tranquilizing the heart. Tortoise board has a better detoxification effect. Generally this soup is added to the pork, used to tune out the fresh flavor of the soup, however, this soup has been improved, replaced with the addition of water snake meat, to improve the freshness of the effect is better. The taste of this soup is sweet and salty, with a heavier herbal flavor.
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Baby Cold Gourd Soup
Effects: Clearing heat and removing toxins, moisturizing the spleen and lungs
Ingredients: Cold Gourd, Chen kidneys, Job's tear grains, Tzatziki, red meat, old chickens, sliced shark's fins, mother-of-pearl, soybeans, etc.
Chef's Comments: Bitter Gourd is a good way of detoxification, nourishing the skin and improving the beauty of the body. This cold melon is purchased from Hainan, Hainan sunshine, bitter melon flavor is more intense. Chen kidney is a duck kidney cured dry goods, curing method similar to ham. The red meat is the net lean meat, and the green sliced shark's fin is the small shark's fin. This soup tastes sweet and cool, and is especially good for people who smoke, stay up late, or have an upset throat.
Tips for making soup: After all the ingredients are put into the stew pot, the stew pot must be covered and sealed with sandpaper, and then simmered in water for 4 hours, adding the right amount of salt to taste can be consumed.