Cantonese-Style Fig Soup

My Personal Experience

I've had a real bad experience after eating about 10 chicken nuggets. My lips cracked and bled badly. This is a result of heat accumulation in my body.

My lips continue to bleed for several days until I decided to boil figs soup.

It's a simple Chinese soup but it really does wonders to your body. My lips started to heal after a day and 3 days later, my lips is no longer cracked. My aunt also has a toothache after eating too much nuggets. She's healed too after drinking this wondrous soup.

Recipe

You will need :-

1. 600g of spare ribs or 1 whole chicken
2. 15 - 20 dried figs or fresh figs
3. 30g of Nan Xing & Bei Xing each. (These are Chinese Almonds)
4. 3 big dried sweet dates (Mi Zao)

Method

• Prepare about 2.5 - 3 litres of water, put them to boil
• Meanwhile, scrub the whole chicken with salt (to rid of bacteria!)
• Scald the spare ribs / chicken till you have rid it of their blood
• Put the spare ribs / chicken in the boiling pot of water
• Put in your figs, Chinese almonds and sweet dates
• Boil at high fire for 30 mins and slow fire for 2 & a half hours

There you have it, your soup is ready!

Soups boil in earthern or clay pots will taste much more superior than soups boil in aluminium pots. Try it if you disbelieve me!