Bean Curd Soup with Fish Stock

This Chinese recipe uses traditional bean curds and pork in simmering fish stock creating a wonderful mix of flavors. ...

Winter Melon and Chicken Velvet Soup

In Hong Kong and China, some restaurants specialize in a very sophisticated dish, Winter Melon Pond. A whole winter melon of the perfect size is partially hollowed, filled with such...

Sweet-corn Soup

This Cantonese soup, like sweet and sour pork, is tremendously popular with non-Chinese, especially Westerners. Canned products are used here for labor-saving purposes. The soup will still be delicious if...

Mongolian Lamb Fire Pot

This Mongolian dish, which has long since become part and parcel of Peking food, ranks second in fame only to Peking duck. ...

Cantonese Fire Pot

A Cantonese fire pot reflects what’s easily available in the region, and it therefore consists of seafood as well as meat and vegetables. If you don’t have a traditional charcoal-burning...

Wonton Wrapper Crisps Soup

The tender wonton wrappers, deep-fried to a crisp before being dunked in the soup, lend special character to this dish. The color of the ingredients, suspended in the clear soup,...

Shark’s Fin Soup

The Chinese are unanimous in their appreciation of shark’s fin soup, and this very nutritious soup is rightly considered to be one of the most exotic examples of Chinese cuisine....

Bird’s Nest Soup

Like shark’s fin soap, bird’s nest soup reaches the heights of Chinese cuisine, though Westerners are often put off by the name and the fact that it is produced by...

Dried Scallop Soup

Dried scallops used to be relatively cheap in China and Dried scallop soup was the poor man’s Shark’s fin soup. However, times have changed, and this soup, with its contrast...

Bean Curd Soup

A simple but refreshing soup that is also very healthy—a vegetarian’s delight. ...