Cockles and Ginger Soup

This simple cleansing recipe is my grandmother’s. It was she who introduced me, aged five, to all the culinary delights of homemade Chinese food. She loved to cook us a feast and she would send my grandfather on his moped to the local market to select the freshest ingredients. My grandfather, moaning and cursing, would go off, but we all think he secretly enjoyed it. He was known to the local farmers and traders and always came home boasting that he’d struck a bargain!

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