Made Your Own Soup @ Wing Kee Noodle, Hongkong

I can't discern anything in the bowl. Being in the country where I don't speak the language nor read the writing, I must put my fate for the dinner at the mercy of my friend. "Just don't put anything funny" I said, which she responded with a big suspicious grin.


"This brown mud soup couldn't be that bad. There won't be so many people queuing in this small restaurant if it is that bad." I mumble. Right in front of the door, there are approximately 20 people queuing for a seat. I stir the soup slowly and 3 piece of octopus tentacle came out of the mud. "Great.... what else now...."

A single sip instantly removes all doubts. I was expecting a heavy beef stock, but found a lighter one, despite of the look. To my relieve, my friend ordered some fish ball, fried tofu, sliced beef and octopus tentacle, all by no means a funny meal. A generous amount of noodle and water spinach is found at the bottom.

A warm chat with her completes my dinner. I'm full and happy

The 2 in 1 Tomato Soup

Although I insist that it would be safer for us to buy instead of cooking our own tomato soup, she insist me to promise to cook her one. So finally last week I keep my promise, and use Jamie's recipe posted by Venny in her blog. Since there are only 2 of us, not to mention other recipe tried that day, we cut the recipe into half. Here is the result:


We put the soup from the recipe to a blender, then strain to obtain smoother texture. The result looks convincing, except that we got only 1 small cup instead of 3. Then here all the laughter came.

First, the soup smell more to sambal balado (Padang's Cuisine), and taste like one. We can still trace the taste of the tomato, though, and she said that it taste good, but I still think it reminds me of sambal balado. I think somehow I cut wrong amount of red pepper and chillies from the original recipe

And when we see the residue on the strainer, we almost rolling on the floor laughing. It reminds us to chili for Ayam Pop, another Padang's cuisine.

Fortunately the soup is still edible, and does not cause any side effect so far. And hopefully she now agree that it is better to buy rather than my version of tomato soup :D