Name: Ham & Bamboo Shoot Soup
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 1 egg, lightly beaten; 5 ml/1 tsp lard or white cooking fat; 25 g/1 oz/¼ cup peas, thawed if frozen; 115 g/4 oz ham, diced into 1cm/½in cubes; 800 ml/scant 1½ pints/3½ cups meat stock or water; 150 g/5 oz young bamboo shoots, cut into thin strips; 30 ml/2 tbsp vegetable oil; 2 garlic cloves, crushed; 30 ml/2 tbsp Shaoxing wine or dry sherry; 30 ml/2 tbsp light soy sauce

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

China

By Terry Tan

Published 2020

About

This fragrant soup hails from Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province, which has been known as a popular beauty spot for centuries. There is an old Chinese saying: ‘In Heaven there is Paradise; in China we have Hangzhou.’ This beautiful city also offers many gastronomic delights. Chinese ham is very different from the Western kind and the best is reputed to come from Jinhua, also in the same province. If this is unavailable, use good smoked ham.