{"id":12345,"date":"2022-02-12T23:24:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T15:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/?p=12345"},"modified":"2022-02-12T23:24:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T15:24:16","slug":"hot-sour-soup-%e9%85%b8%e8%be%a3%e6%b1%a4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/?p=12345","title":{"rendered":"Hot &#038; Sour Soup (\u9178\u8fa3\u6c64)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12347 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Hot-and-Sour-Soup-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"605\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12348 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Hot-and-Sour-Soup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Time to celebrate the closing of a festive new year season. May the year of the Tiger be a calm and peaceful one, and may we continue to look forward to a better year ahead.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This dish and recipe reminds me a lot about my childhood. While I was in primary school, my mum used to work as a part-timer at a supermarket at the Ginza Plaza (now known as the West Coast Plaza) and so I had had to take on the role to prepare dinner everyday. She would leave some ingredients ready in the fridge so that all I had to do was throw everything together &#8211; simple staff really if I didn&#8217;t recall wrongly. One of my favourites would be the hot and sour soup because she purchased the Knorr brand mix which contained a ready mixture, so all you had to do was add the mix to water, add in egg and tofu, and voila the soup would be ready in a gist. I loved that the soup was thick and peppery and I could easily finish a bowl off as a kid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Knorr would probably still have this mix in the supermarket, but I haven&#8217;t tried it for a long time. Maybe it&#8217;s a good time now to try this again, but for now, I&#8217;ll cook it from scratch just for fun. Not the thickest soup I know it could be though, so I&#8217;ll try better next time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For now, enjoy this recipe!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chicken stock: 4 cups<\/li>\n<li>Shiitake mushroom: 100g, sliced thinly<\/li>\n<li>Black vinegar: 3 tbsp<\/li>\n<li>Light soy sauce: 1 tbsp<\/li>\n<li>Ground ginger: 1 tsp<\/li>\n<li>Cornstarch mixture: 2 tbsp cornstarch + 3 tbsp water<\/li>\n<li>Egg: 1, large, beaten<\/li>\n<li>Silken tofu: 100g, cubed<\/li>\n<li>Green onion: 1 stalk, finely chopped<\/li>\n<li>Sesame oil: 1 tbsp<\/li>\n<li>Salt: to taste<\/li>\n<li>Ground white pepper: 2 tsp<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Method<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Bring chicken stock to a boil.<\/li>\n<li>Add in mushrooms, black vinegar, light soy sauce and ground ginger.<\/li>\n<li>Whisk in cornstarch mixture to thicken the soup.<\/li>\n<li>Stir soup in a circular motion. Drizzle in egg to create egg ribbons.<\/li>\n<li>Stir in tofu, green onions, sesame oil, salt and white pepper.<\/li>\n<li>Serve hot with rice.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12346 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Hot-and-Sour-Soup-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"552\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Tricks<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Different recipes propose using different types of vinegar (black or white). I personally think that black vinegar works best, especially the good quality ones with a slight sweetness to the taste.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Put in a lot of ground white pepper to spice it all up &#8211; that&#8217;s how the &#8216;hot&#8217; in this dish comes about!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Serving<\/strong><\/em>:<br \/>\n3 &#8211; 4 persons as side dish<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:40px;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/?p=12345\" send=\"true\" layout=\"button_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"verdana\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to celebrate the closing of a festive new year season. May the year of the Tiger be a calm and peaceful one, and may we continue to look forward to a better year ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,31],"tags":[852,224,853],"class_list":["post-12345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-soup","tag-hot","tag-sichuan","tag-sour"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12466,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12345\/revisions\/12466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}