Bird’s Nest Soup with Chicken

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4 to 6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Fragrant Harbour Taste: The New Chinese Cooking of Hong Kong

By Ken Hom

Published 1989

  • About

You must try it, just once. You will come back for more. As exotic and special as it sounds, bird’s nest soup is very popular in Hong Kong and many parts of Asia. It is held to be good for one’s complexion, to have medicinal virtues, and to slow down the aging process. Furthermore, it has a great taste – slightly gelatinous with the subtle flavour of whatever sauce or broth it has been cooked in. The nests are made, usually on rocky cliffs at the shoreline, by a species of bird in Thailand,