Steamed Sweet Bird’s Nest Soup

Bird’s nest soup is as highly regarded as shark’s fin soup as a component of a grand and festive banquet. When the Chinese hear it will be served, most of them automatically think of the sweet soup, in which the nests, their strands silky smooth after soaking and steaming, are cooked with white or rock sugar. In a variation on that classic, nests are steamed with sugar and rice into a kind of pudding. And in some restaurants, chefs add strands of the nests to sweet custard tarts.

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