Recipe: Re: Hot Sour Spicy Soup

I haven't made this recipe at home but have had it at the Jade Garden restaurant in Littleton, CO. My neighbor owns and runs the Jade Garden and it is the best Chinese Hot and Sour soup I have ever had. She has this recipe printed in her take out menus.


Hot Sour Spicy Soup Recipe
2 ounces ham or barbeque pork
1/2 cake bean curd
3 pieces Chinese dried black mushroom, soaked and softened
1 dried woodear, soaked and softened
1 1/2 ounce bamboo shoot strip
1 egg beaten well
6 cups soup stock
4 tsp soy sauce
1 tsp salt
2 tsp ground black pepper
2 tbsp corn starch, dissolved in cold water in advance
3 tbsp white vinegar
1 tsp sesame oil
Shred ham or bbq pork, bean curd, mushroom and woodear into fine strips. Heat
soup stock to boiling and add shredded items and bamboo strip. Continue boiling for about 10 minutes, then season with soy sauce, salt and pepper. Bring soup to a boil again. Slowly pour in corn starch while stirring iwth wooden spoon to avoid setting of cornstarch. When soup thickens, add egg very slowly, in a thin stream. Add vinegar just before serving. Add sesame oil last.