What's up everyone?
Today we are going to learn how to make
Egg Flower Soup from scratch.
Also known as Egg Drop Soup,
My dad’s deliciously simple Egg Flower Soup recipe
Only takes about 10-15 minutes to make
The "fā" in “dáan fā tōng”
Refers to the way the eggs beautifully blossom
Into fine wisps and strands
As we slowly whisk the egg into the soup
Teaching us will be my dad,
Who's been cooking Chinese food for over 50 years.
And who happens to be playing the flute that you’re hearing right now
Also, stay tuned at the end to eat with my family
And learn more about the dish
Check out our blog post for a printable
Adjustable list of ingredients, as well as
Step-by-step videos and instructions on
How to make this dish
Hope you guys enjoy!
I hope everyone is doing well!
Today we're going to make the simple and popular
Egg Flower Soup
It's actually very simple, you just need eggs
Vegetables and other toppings are up to you
First, let's chop up our green onions and carrots
Cut the carrots into tiny cubes
Then, we'll add 6 cups of water into the pot
And set the stove to high heat
To start boiling the water
Let's beat the eggs first
We're using 3 eggs
If you'd like to use 4 eggs, that's fine too
This serves about 4-6 people
If you have less people, you can make less
It's up to you
When we mix the eggs,
Here's an important tip:
Add 1 tbsp of water to the bowl
Adding a bit of water helps the eggs flower better
But don't add too much
To be thorough, beat the eggs for about 20 seconds
Great, now we're done with the eggs. Place it to the side.
Once our pot is boiling
We'll add our carrots, corn, and peas into the pot
Then, we'll start preparing our cornstarch slurry
With 3 tbsp cornstarch and 5 tbsp water
Mix until there are no clumps of cornstarch
Everyone watch
Let's start to thicken the soup
Keep mixing constantly as you pour in the cornstarch
Don't pour it in all at once - pour slowly.
Keep pouring and stirring for about 30 seconds
Until the soup base starts to thicken
We've thickened our soup
Now, we'll add our egg to the soup
When you pour the egg, don't pour it in all at once
You have to go slowly
Constantly stirring as you pour
Then you won’t have clumps
Watch
Stir as you pour
See?
Slowly pour, slowly stir
Wow, look how beautiful the egg flower is! See?
It really is just beautiful.
Now, let's turn the heat off
To preserve the softness of the eggs
Then we'll add 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp chicken powder,
As well as white pepper and sesame oil to taste
Mix the flavors into the soup
By and large, our dish is a success!
Great!
Now, our soup is done
Everyone look
The egg flower is really beautiful
Let's pour it into the bowl
See how pretty it is?
Okay
Great success
See this beautiful Egg Flower Soup?
Okay, we can all eat now!
Let's add a bit of green onion
You can add it or not, it's up to you
Great! It's that simple.
Great. Our easy Egg Flower Soup is done
Let's eat!
Doesn’t he look so happy? Huh?
Hong Doy
Hong Doy, eat Egg Flower Soup with us!
Mmmm...
Ooh I'm excited!
The Egg Flower Soup is beautiful, right?
How beautiful is the Egg Flower Soup?
It’s mixed really well, right?
Cheers!
Thank you!
Cheers!
Hi baby!
Cheers Cam!
Oh my goodness
I'm excited!
Here, you get control of your white pepper today
YESSSSS…..
He loves white pepper
SSSSSSS….
Don't mess up the flavor
You want some Egg Flower Soup?
(Coughs)
Too much?
You put way too much
See?
It's good huh?
Mmhmm!
Mmmm
The egg looks beautiful
If you don't put the water in there (while mixing the eggs)
Is it more likely that the eggs are more chunky?
Yes, it probably won't be as beautiful.
See how beautiful this is?
Can you use chicken (in the Egg Flower Soup?)
Yeah, like Daddy said, you can use whatever you want
But you must flower the egg.
You can use whatever meat you want
Shrimp works too
You can also call this soup -
gāng
dáan fā gāng?
And you can also call it dáan fā tōng?
gāng, is like a thick liquid
tōng is a thinner liquid
Did you cook this as a kid?
You think I had eggs to eat when I was a kid?
You had chickens, though
Our chickens didn't yield that many eggs
This dish requires 3 eggs
We'd have to wait days for 3 eggs
It's not like now where we eat tons of eggs
In one month we’d be lucky to eat eggs twice.
In the old days, it was nothing like right now
We had a coupon
A ticket to go to the market to buy pork
Maybe, one pound for one month
One pound one month?
We couldn't buy meat every day
So a lot of times, the table was only vegetables
Otherwise, I'd fish a lot
I’d catch fish all day
He'd catch fish in a little pond
I always had a lot of fish to eat at my house
How big were the fish?
Really big, really small. Some were like this, some were like that.
My fish were tasty
My catfish, they were small
They were so good, nothing like the ones here.
The catfish here don't taste good.
I caught a lot of frogs, too.
tìhngāi means frog
Frog?
I had so many frogs at my house!
I'd take care of them at home
Whenever there was a big rain
I'd catch a lot of frogs
On rainy days, all the frogs would come out
From the soil, then you could catch them
When you catch them at home
You can't finish them all at once
We'd just use a little pot
To put the frogs inside to eat later
We'd kind of raise them for a while
I'd always play flute at the shore while I fished
I'd flute and fish all day
Whenever there was a fish - caught!
When I saw a fish swimming, I'd catch it really quickly
Do you want to fish more now?
She said, "Do you still want to fish now?"
Mmmm.. no
You have to go really far to fish now
Let grandpa hold baby
Yeh Yeh (grandpa) is going to hold you
When you were little
When Jennifer was little
We cooked this a lot for them
A lot
Like 3 or 4 times a week
Oh wow!
Because we had a restaurant
In the restaurant, it's very easy to do it
Now everyone on YouTube is going to see
I use chopsticks wrong
I do it like this
I know you're supposed to do it like this
Yeah it's supposed to be like this.
Cam, one day you're going to learn how to use chopsticks
Yeah, don't learn from me!
Cam did you like the dish?
The Egg Flower Soup, Cam?
Yeah!
You wore stretchy pants so that you could eat lots!
Big boy food!
Awww
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And enjoy
The beautiful Egg Flower Soup!
Yay!