Everyday Meals – Two Dishes One Soup
(家肴 – 两菜一汤)
Most Chinese go home after school or work, thus dinner is an important meal of the day.
Chinese meal typically consists of several dishes and a bowl of rice and soup.
Snow Pea Leaves are simply the leaves of a young pea plant. They are great steamed, in soup or sauteed. Snow Pea Leaves are delicate, they should be lightly cooked and barely seasoned.
These leaves are quickly blanched, fragrant oil are then drizzle over the top with a light touch of oyster sauce. This dish is light, tender and sweet.
My second dish is a soup.
Soup play a big part in Cantonese culinary culture. Cantonese believe that hot soup nourish one’s beauty, strengthen physical health and even prevent or cure illnesses.
Whether you are hungry, hungover or exhausted, a bowl of hot soup will revive or purify you.
Cantonese has a wide variety of soups for any occasions and for all weathers. This double-boiled lotus root with pork ribs soup is a classic.
In addition to lotus root and pork ribs, several types of dried seafood and dried food are added to the soup. The soup is double-boiled for several hours to extract all the goodness of the ingredients, enhancing the taste of the soup and producing a bowl of flavourful, full-bodied and nutritious soup.
老少平安 literally mean safe for the elderly and young.
The two main ingredients in this dish is fish paste and tofu. The elderly can enjoy without much chewing and the young can eat without having to worry about fish bones.
This is a clean and simple dish, a dish I turn to when I have no appetite or feeling unwell.
This dish is best served hot, and is delicious with rice.
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