Nourishing Soups Like Mum Used to Make

The Hakkas and the Cantonese must have soup everyday for their meals.  I remember when I was young, it was my duty to trot down to the wet market down the road every morning to buy one dollar pork and fifty cents pork ribs. Then I will buy ten cents winter melon or sai yong choi or lotus root or whatever Mum says to buy for that day's soup.  We boil a big pot of soup every day with the pork ribs and have it for lunch AND dinner every day, every time, without fail. The soup gets tastier in the evening because it will have been boiled for a longer time!!!

Then, when I got married and came to stay in Kuala Lumpur, it was not the practice in this family to serve soup.  In fact they do not like soups.  Soup was only made once in a while and for certain occasions only.  Oh, how I miss those soups mum used to make!!!

Now, in the school canteen there is a chap fun stall that serves FREE soup.  Soup of the day will be a surprise, but most certainly, it will be PIPING hot, just like MUM used to make!!!

These are some of the soups free with our rice....

Preserved radish with wolfberries (tua tau chai tng)

ABC soup (carrot, onion and potato soup)

White cloud fungus soup

closer look of the white cloud fungus

seaweed soup

closer view of black seaweed and egg drop soup

water cress(sai yong choi)  with wolfberries

can you see the wolfberries and watercress

an old favourite: lotus root with red dates

ham choi tau fu tong...salted vegetable and tofu soup

everybody's favourite: peanut with chicken feet soup!!!