I Cook TRADITIONAL Chinese Soup With Mom
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- čas přidán 13. 02. 2023
- Join Mama Lai and I as we cook Chinese soup! This version is green turnip carrot & chicken. In Chinese, it’s called 青蘿蔔 紅蘿蔔 雞. I grew up with these soups, and I always felt better after drinking it. It’s very soothing and comforting, especially if you’re not feeling well. These soups are especially popular amongst Toisanese people. Toisan is a Guang Zhou province in the Southern part of China. That’s where my Mom is from!
Enjoy this soup! You’ll definitely feel better after drinking it!
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👩🏻🍳RECIPE
Ingredients:
4 Chinese dates
1 tbsp of bitter almonds
1 tbsp of sweet almond
8 chicken thighs
2 turnips
1 carrot (large)
Instructions:
1. Put the dates and almonds in a pot. Cover with water and bring to a boil. Once it boils, lower the temperature and cover. Simmer for at least 1 hour.
2. Deskin chicken and wash. We use chicken thighs, though you can also use other parts of the chicken.
3. Parboil the chicken. Put chicken ina pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil. Let it boil for a few minutes. Add the fat and impurities should rise to the surface.
4. Bring the pot to the pink and dump out the water. Rinse the chicken to clean it.
5. Add the chicken to the pot with the almonds and dates. Cover with water. Bring to a boil. Once it boils, cover and simmer on low for at least 2 hours.
6. Cut two turnips and one carrot into one inch chunks.
7. After the broth boils for at least two hours, add the turnips in. Add more water as needed to cover
8. After 30 minutes, add the carrot.
9. After another 30 minutes, season with salt to your liking. The soup is ready to eat!
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It's true, Asian's been drinking bone broth for centuries. I make a version of this soup a lot and have it even in hot days. Thanks for sharing!
Yes! Soup is SO healing for the body and soul. Thanks for watching!
@@JoannaHopeLai you’re welcome!
Like so many Asian traditions the rest of the world is only just catching up. Asians don’t promote their own culture very well while challenging the onslaught of westernization. Except for Japan who promote select Asian culture as if it was wholly Japanese, a case of cultural colonization. And Japan excel at presentation. Sometimes the packaging is better than the content.
4th generation Chinese American here, my grandfather side was also Toisanese. My dad also referred to the dialect they spoke as farmer language too so that was really neat. It's great that you know some Cantonese as my family doesn't speak it anymore. Thank you for posting your videos with your mom, you are so underrated! I definitely have to give this recipe a try to learn more about Toisan food/culture.
Thanks for watching this video! Love the Toisan connection. More Cantonese recipes to come! 👍
Your cooking videos with Mama Lai is so heart-warming, and she's so cute!! Gaining lots of great tips........thanks!
My Chinese Dad always prepared a soup with dinner. Thank you for reminding me. Precious memories of delicious meals❤️❤️❤
Soup is SO good with dinner. Soothes the soul.
Joanna, thank you for posting the video! Love to watch you speak Cantonese. You sounded so cute. 🙂 I look forward to seeing more cooking videos (with Cantonese recipes)!
Glad you enjoyed the video!
Really interesting to not use the broth, but I’m down with it. I learned something new! Thanks Mama Lai & Johanna.
Keep up the good work Joanna! Love it! Thanks for sharing. 😊
Thanks for the encouragement!
Love it!
Thanks, Vicky!
Love to hear that Toisan!! I grew up drinking all of the different canto soups, so thanks for sharing these recipes, Cantonese soup making is truly an art.
Just a small correction: Toisan actually isn’t in Guangzhou (which is a city), it’s outside of Guangzhou in Guangdong province.
Thanks for the correction- I misspoke in the video. And yes, during this video, I learned the base and process for the soups is similar, though the ingredients can vary. I'm excited to make more in the future!
You are so lucky to enjoy your Mom’s culinary expertise upon returning home; My mom was like your mom, a fabulous Cantonese cook.
I am bi-coastal (Hawaii andBay Area) so I stock up on Asian ingredients when returning home! Missed all that goodness!’
Yes, I'm thankful for my Mom's cooking. Nothing compares to it! Sending blessings your way
First gen Chinese here. I love these videos because it reminds me of my childhood. It's so nice to have your mom teaching, as my mom did very little teaching - just cooking and expecting me to observe and learn.
Glad you enjoy these videos, and thanks for watching! Yes, I have to be very intentional about asking my mom to teach me how to cook. These videos are a good way to learn!
This is the first time I heard you and your mom speak Toisan. I felt like the only kid in school who spoke it while my other friends spoke Cantonese, Mandarin, Chiu Chow, and Vietnamese. I feel the tones in Toisan are more guteral and flatter compared to Cantonese.
I grew up always drinking soups with almost all my meals. My mom made soups all the time and some were very medicinal and not fun to drink as a kid (especially the bitter ones). It’s very true; we Toisan people drink lots of nutritious soups like this. Although, I don’t think I’ve ever had this one. It looked very tasty. Your parents are so cute! More cooking videos with your parents please.
Thanks for sharing!
@@JoannaHopeLai Thank you so much for the reply! I have been watching more of your videos lately and going back to some of your earlier ones before I subscribed. I can see how far you’ve come with your videos and storytelling sharing your new journey with us whether you’re at home visiting with your parents or living your best life in Hawaii. You make me miss it even though I’ve only been to Kauai and Maui once in 2019. The Kauai camping vlogs have been enjoyable. Keep up the great work!
The way your mom looked at you 😂 when you were pealing
Mama has high standards!
The look Johanna gave her mom was Appealing.
Nana-- you and your mama are just adorable together. Both of you have a playful snarky (probably not the right word) sense of humor that makes the videos of you two just magical 💫✨💫💗
Thanks so much for your kind words! We enjoy having time together =)
Your mom speaks Hoisanese which is a different dialect from Cantonese. This is one of my favorite soup! Super clean and healthy. You two have a cute relationship and I am here for it 😊
Thank you! Yes, Mom is from Toisan. 😀👍
A+ (and I’m known as a good cook)!👍🥰
Thank you for another heart warming video of cooking with Mama Lai!
That soup, and everything else you’ve cooked, looks so deelish!!!
Love your channel❣️❣️
Thanks for the kind words! We're so glad you enjoy watching these videos
Please do some steamed fish ❤ We eat Cod almost every day 😊
My mom always makes this soup. Im glad to see how to make this 😎
The soup is so good!
Please ask mom if we can sub the almonds for pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds? And if we can sub radish for bitter melon or something? Because of allergies. Thank you for another fun video.
Hello! I asked Mom your question. She says you're unable to substitute pumpkin seeds/ sunflower seeds for almonds. The almonds from the Chinese market are completely different from those sound in the Western supermarkets. She also said you cannot substitute radish, unfortunately.
@@JoannaHopeLai Right. It would make it taste completely different. Oh well, darned allergies taking all my food options away lol. Thank you for asking 😃
Steamed fish would be the bomb diggity ❤
Steamed dish is comfort food! Hope we can do that in a future long CZcams video!
Toisan is in Guangdong, not Guangzhou. How could she not have learnt this soup before this age? Good grief.
Hi Joanna can the green turnip be substituted for sweetcorn as i dont like turnip?
I asked Mama Lai, and she said "Hm... I don't know"😂
Hello may i ask if there is a way to remove the bitter taste of the turnip? thank you❤
Add some dried red dates
interesting how u guys use only drumsticks.
We sometimes use the entire chicken or thighs. Just using what we have today!
Just a lot of BS...
Please stop lying, it does not work...