Prawns and ginger soup
Rustic and comforting, very Asian in essence, this soup is simplicity illustrated. Saute ginger, garlic and shallots in a little oil, pour in water, add the prawns and some kind of magic happens. You’d think that since the sauteing ingredients are very similar to those used to cook tinola, the...
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Japanese-style crab and corn soup
A couple of weekends ago, we ate at a Cantonese cum Singaporean restaurant called Tao Yuan in Manila. It’s on the corner of Malvar and Mabini Streets in Malate across Pan Pacific Plaza Hotel. We loved the food, most of the dishes we ordered anyway, and I was supposed to write a review but the [...]...
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Cabbage and quail eggs soup
Quail eggs add an interesting touch to any soup. Even the simplest and plainest-looking soup is perked up with the addition of quail eggs. They are usually added to the Chinese birds’ nest soup but quail eggs can go into a lot of other soups, including a simple cabbage soup.
This recipe starts...
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After the pearl balls and the roast duckling
Sometimes, no matter what you do, you still have to deal with leftovers. For instance, on December 17, for my daughter’s class party, I made pearl balls. I had enough meat mixture to make pearl balls for the party and for our dinner that night but, alas, I only had so much glutinous rice.
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Miso soup with fresh clams
A couple of weeks ago, I bought a kilo and a half of fresh clams not knowing exactly whether I would use them for a pasta dish or a soup. By the time they had been soaked and cleaned, I felt it would be boring to cook them in just any old familiar way. A [...]...
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Sinampalukang manok (sour soup with chicken and tamarind leaves)
My mother has a cousin who cooked delicious sinampalukang manok. She would make a huge pot each time and it always amazed me how she could strip the leaves from the tiny branches so fast. I cooked a pot of sinampalukang manok a few days ago and I found out that stripping the leaves from [...]...
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Miso soup with shrimp wonton and shiitake mushrooms
Like miso soup? So do we. It is great in its simplest form — with just tofu and wakame — but did you know that miso soup can be a base for so many variations? A couple of weekends ago, we passed by DEC (yes, the Chinese deli), and bought cooked and frozen dumplings. The [...]...
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