Asian soups are soups traditionally prepared and consumed in the cultures of East Asia. Such soups are usually based solely on broths and lacking in dairy products such as milk or cream. Thickening for the soups usually consists of refined starches from corn or sweet potatoes.Asian soups are generally categorized as either savoury or sweet. The quality of a savoury soup is determined mainly by its fragrance and umami or "xian" flavor, as well as, to a lesser extent, its mouthfeel. Sweet soups such as tong sui are enjoyed for their aroma, mouthfeel, and aftertaste. Many soups are eaten and drunk as much for their flavour as for their health benefits and touted for their purported revitalizing or invigorating effects.

Bak Kut Teh is a chinese herbal soup serve with variety pork, mushroom......

This is a simple recipe on how to cook lamb soup. You can easily cook this carrot lamb soup using simple ingredients such as carrot and chinese herb.

Chinese roadside wife-and-husband restaurants normally looks like very dirty, but actually its very safe to eat out there. Here is a picture from SINOSPLICE, he nicknamed a Numb Spicy Soup restaurant "filthy delicious", where he occasionally eat.

chinese hot-sour soup against cold

Maybe it was all the lead we consumed in Chinese products. Maybe it was the Hollywood writers' strike. Maybe it was the publication of "Chicken Soup for the American Idol Soul." Whatever the reason, 2007 was a year that demanded — verily, it cried out in the wilderness – for some sort of retrospective that would round up a lot of stupid stuff.