Do you drink soup before or after meal?
By youless
@youless (112178)
Guangzhou, China
9 responses
@sunshine4 (8703)
• United States
16 May 07
In the US soup is served before a meal. I actually will have soup as my meal~ like soup and sandwich.
@DarlingGirl (745)
• United States
16 May 07
You know, here in the US it's hard to find traditional Chinese recipes. Most books on Chinese cooking have very royal dishes.
I like traditional food better!
Would one of you plase tell us a recipe for the clear soup and vegetables?
It looks so good!
@DarlingGirl (745)
• United States
20 May 07
Ah HAH! It's the daikon radish that makes that really good, also dates! How amazing! I'm going to try that immediitely.
THank you for posting it!
@youless (112178)
• Guangzhou, China
16 May 07
Do you like the soup of this attached photo? It's a very common soup for us. And this soup is also very healthy. It's very easy to cook, too. You can put the meat, radish, sweet date, corn inside the water. Boil them for about one hour, add a little salt and it'll be done.
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@aweins (4199)
• India
20 May 07
Hi youless, in our family we take soup before or in between our food. we never take it after our meals. I am a vegetarian and my family (in-laws) are non-vegetarian , but i dont cook any non-veg item. they sometime like to have a veg or a chinese soup in the starting and then some non - veg item like fried fish or chicken or so. these too items are most of the time liked and ordered by us. so, we have soup in the starting and then our meal.
@lordwarwizard (35747)
• Singapore
16 May 07
I don't always have soup with every meal. But I don't have any preference regarding when I drink it. Usually it would be with the meal, or after the meal.
For western meals though, the soup will definitely be before the main course. But that's the western way.
@qouniq (1966)
• Malaysia
16 May 07
We normally have our soup during our meals time. Most of the time we add the veggies or chicken or beef or fish or fish ball/fish cake in the soup. We did not add the flour in our soup like what the western peoples always do with their soup. Our soup is clear soup and added with herbs and spices. we eat them alonng with the other dish and rice.
@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
16 May 07
Soup is a must in our family meal. We normally don't drink the soup after a meal but drink it in between. Sometimes we only have one dish of soup and rice for our meal. A soup can be a meal by itself, I load it with a lot of vegetables and meat. This save me cooking other dishes.
