#cantonese soups

[sikfankitchen]

Cantonese Bean Curd Soup (Foo Jook Tong) Perfect for Lunar New Year!

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healthy food! they tout… goji berry smoothies, great! mine go in my soup.

#GojiBerries

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healthy food! they tout… goji berry smoothies, great! mine go in my soup.

#GojiBerries

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Cantonese-Style Char Siu Ramen. Gold Bowl. Little Rock, Arkansas. 11.13.2023.

NOTE TO SELF: This is the best ramen I've had here. The broth was everything I want from a bowl -- complex, rich, savory, with a subtle hint of sweetness brought on by the barbecue pork. This one was stopped short of perfection because the pork was a little tough -- a jerky texture -- but this one is special.

Currently the best meal I've had of 11 November meals.

[capfalcon]

as a rlly picky eater i feel like a lot of the "oh, you learn to like foods as you get older" is a lot more "you are now capable and willing to try foods that you hated in a different way bc it's more accessible to you now and bc you can personalize it" than "your body changed"

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Fong Kee Claypot, 1773 Decoto Rd, Union City, CA 94587

There aren’t too many places to get claypot rice, so I was excited to see Fong Kee open. Even more exciting is the fact that they make a mean claypot rice, with crispy rice on the bottom. Many times when I’ve ordered claypot rice, there isn’t much crispy rice – not so here.

Fong Kee Claypot is a Cantonese restaurant. The menu includes appetizers, porridge, double-boiled soup, vegetables, claypot rice (aka rice casserole) – many kinds with eel, Chinese sausage, spareribs, chicken, salted fish, etc. The claypot rice comes in two sizes, regular and large. The large feeds 2-3 people. The casseroles take some time to cook. Ours took 20 minutes.

C9 Salted fish and pork patty, large rice casserole, $27.99: Looked wonderful – two large ground pork patties on top covering most of the surface. There were tiny bits of chopped salted fish (not sure what kind of fish they used but it wasn’t anchovy) on top of the pork patties and a drizzle of their sauce (think sweetened soy sauce). The long grain white rice is on the dry side and it soaks up the sauce and flavors of what’s cooked on top. The juicy pork patties were delicious. The salted fish was too salty for me but after all, it is salted fish. Loved their housemade chili sauce – ask for some. My father was pleased and he rarely likes anything. He does love claypot rice. We ate about half and took the rest home. Generous portion. The smaller size would have been enough for us.

Wish they had thrown some bok choy on top but you can order veggies separately.

The menu is laminated and you’ll write down what you want on the menu. The interior is simple but nice – white walls, wood laminate flooring, newish furniture. It’s a popular place.

4.5 out of 5 stars

By Lolia S.

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[meanmelin]

Chinese Cabbage and Ginger Soup This comforting, healing Cantonese soup only requires 3 ingredients: chicken stock, napa cabbage, and fresh ginger. It can be made in under 30 minutes.

[sikfankitchen]

Cantonese soup called 排骨莲藕汤 “Pork, Lotus Root & Peanut Soup”. It’s easy to make and has many health benefits such as boosting immunity, digestion and blood circulation. All you need to do is simmer pork bones (blanched with ginger beforehand to remove impurities), lotus root, raw peanuts (soaked for 3 hours or boiled for 30mins beforehand to soften), 1 dried octopus, 3 dried figs, 2 ginger slices and water (enough to cover the ingredients) for 2 hours.

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Would it be cringe to use a cantonese pronoun in English? I think it may just be social anxiety. But also would it be cringe. I do need to say on the post or I'll die that I'm half Cantonese Chinese.

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So my favorite character in The Brothers Sun is Taiwan. Like yeah Taiwan has its own shows and movies but it just feels Different to see Taiwan in a big international/American show! It’s SO cool actually and so um here are some thoughts I had and things I Noticed about different Taiwan scenes and things in the show idk

Episode 1

the opening shot of Taipei tells us this is a Thursday- the top of 101 is green and is a different color every day of the week

that corkscrew-shaped apartment building we see Charles living in is kind of an urban legend here in Taipei. They say it’s the most expensive place to live in the city, that each apartment has its own swimming pool, and that there’s an elevator specifically to bring cars up to display in your living room. No idea if the interiors look like that for real though

I was gonna say it’s pretty crazy he has an American-style oven in Taipei bc nobody does but actually in that apartment… yeah he probably would

afaik there’s not a way to (“legally”/officially) stream any of those famous British baking shows here rip

I do wonder if they actually filmed the opening scene in the corkscrew building or if they just really pay attention to detail because the skyline seen out the window matches up to what it would really look like from that part of the city

the shoes, I mean we all know about shoes-off houses but yeah

豆漿. Soy milk. Yeah

They definitely eat Hi-chews in one of these scenes

Episode 2

It makes way more sense for the guys to have snuck out for shaved ice as kids than youtiao… I’m just saying… like would *I* do that yes but it’s usually just like. A thing you eat with soup or breakfast

Episode 3

“Are you sure you can handle-“ “the heat? I’m from Taiwan.” lmfao BITCH Taiwan has some of the blandest cuisine I’ve ever tasted (he does think it’s too spicy tho lol)

“Keelung. A fishing village just north of Taipei.” Okay like I can see how the older generation would call it that but it’s actually a whole ass city…

Episode 5

Not a Taiwan thing but the Maotai made me laugh. It’s like the Coca Cola of Chinese baijiu and imho it’s just as awful as every other brand

Episode 6

ok the episode that made me want to make this list

the Costco shit IS funny because vitamins, baby formula, that’s all the good stuff you want to bring back from abroad BUT actually we have Costco in Taiwan and can easily get a lot of that stuff? This concept imo would fit a lot better for China than Taiwan. It’s still very much a thing to load your suitcase up with baby formula on the way home to China, and there’s actually a huge smuggling business bringing it in through Hong Kong but I digress

Idk why I’m happy to hear Changhua and Douliu mentioned in an American TV show… Seriously, I don’t know. They’re kind of like nowhere places I’ve never even been. I just feel like everyone’s grandparents live there.

Even the way they film Mama Sun on the plane. Like the Mandarin music in the background with the announcement for Taoyuan airport… to me it feels specifically like a transpacific flight to Taiwan lolol but that’s definitely like a bias probably

Okay not to be SO nitpicky but so when she looks out the window on the plane to see Taipei 101 etc I’m not sure about that? The airport is actually in another city and I feel like I usually come in around and over the ocean or something?

But WOW the taxi scene my favorite scene it’s SO visceral and SO Taiwan… the street, the lights, the Cosmed/Mos Burger/7-Eleven, the street noises, like I can FEEL Taiwan through the screen and HER FACE taking it all in I WANT TO SOB

The temple, beautiful like this episode makes me believe Michelle Yeoh is Taiwanese lol

I appreciate the viscerality of the night market shots too but it seemed a bit empty

Okay so Mama Sun’s mom is super rich too based on where she lives which I guess it makes sense. But what I am curious about is the story about why they’re speaking Cantonese because Taiwan has a lot of languages but that’s not one of them like officially at all. I wonder if there’s a character backstory there or they just like. Didn’t want to bother teaching Michelle how to speak Minnan or something

The cemetery too is so fancy, I mean it fits but wow that’s expensive real estate

In the hospital scene, Taipei 101 is lit blue out the window, making it a Friday. Has everything in the show so far happened in only 8 days?

Episode 7

“Last night the Boxers made their move” 101 says it’s Tuesday for anyone keeping track

I LOST it at the Foodpanda driver assassin the first time I saw this… So Taiwan

Big fancy church in Taipei? I know they exist but I’ve never seen one in person (like 2%? of the country is Christian)

A mom bringing back tea as a souvenir from Taiwan? 100% real

Episode 8

RAW is a real restaurant in Taipei. It’s very fancy and very expensive and had I think two Michelin stars. I don’t know ANYONE who’s actually been there lol

[heavenlyyshecomes]

a tiny list of every food mentioned in nina mingya powells' tiny moons (so far): jasmine tea, instant noodles, wonton noodle soup, cantonese roast duck, crispy egg noodles, congee, charsiu bao, mooncakes, sesame pancakes, fried aubergine, black tea, jiaozi, chicken and aubergine curry, burgers, curry puffs, shengjianbao, guotie, pickled vegetables, stir-fried cauliflower with slivers of beancurd skin, plain steamed rice, shanghai-style shaomai with sticky rice and shiitake mushrooms, xiaolongbao

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no one:

absolutely no one:

ofmd s2: cantonese makes the BEST soup

as a cantonese can confirm that is true

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Chong Yuen Fong, 7 E Valley Blvd, Alhambra, CA 91801

As you’d suspect from the name, CYF is very Chinese. The co-founder is from Guangzhou/Hong Kong and he founded Coconut Jelly King (which is in the same strip mall and has multiple locations). I’m a fan of Coconut Jelly King…Chong Yuen Fong, not so much. The offerings are very limited and include two rice dishes and Chinese (Cantonese) wellness/herbal soups (3 different soups per day). They also have freshly baked egg tarts and cheese tarts.

Portuguese egg tart ($1.38): It was nice – a delicate, flaky shell (not as thick as other places) but thin with a creamy, eggy filling. The egg flavor was pretty mild. It was on the sweeter side.

Cheese lava tarts ($2.48): The crust was like a crispy, delicate shortbread cookie and the filling was very soft and tasted like cream cheese/cheesecake. It was richer/heavier than the egg tart.

The tarts definitely tasted fresh. They weren’t the best that I’ve had but they were made with skill. Unfortunately, there isn’t much else there that one can purchase. As I was waiting for my turn to order, the woman in front of me wanted to order some soup. They only had one kind of soup that day. She asked about something else on the menu and they didn’t have that either.

Parking was easy to find (shared strip mall parking lot). The décor was interesting, reminiscent of old China in the 1930’s?

3.5 out of 5 stars

By Lolia S.