Soup is a Magic Elixir

I really need to get a chest freezer so I can make more stock. The Samsung fridge that came with out house has a side by side that's like 75% fridge and I have zero places to put frozen stock.
We got an upright freezer and I do not miss digging through a chest freezer to get to the bottom at all.
 
I really need to get a chest freezer so I can make more stock. The Samsung fridge that came with out house has a side by side that's like 75% fridge and I have zero places to put frozen stock.
I have almost pulled the trigger on a dedicated freezer several times over the last few years. They are super cheap and efficient. I worry about becoming a hoarder.
 
I really need to get a chest freezer so I can make more stock. The Samsung fridge that came with out house has a side by side that's like 75% fridge and I have zero places to put frozen stock.
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I store homemade stock by freezing it into ice cubes and vacuum sealing it. It’s easy to break off the amount I need and put the rest back in the freezer.
 
I have almost pulled the trigger on a dedicated freezer several times over the last few years. They are super cheap and efficient. I worry about becoming a hoarder.
We got a real basic Insignia one and it's life changing. Easy to stock up on frozen pizzas, or meat that's on sale, make stocks, save carcasses for stock, etc. But yeah I get the tendency to think of it as bottomless.
 
Went to a kinda bizarre to me Chinese restaurant around the corner from Cellarmaker Howard st last night, looks like it’s an old shitty diner minimally decorated with a few Chinese wall hangings, oddly bright lighting, weird dingy place. 3 of us got the same menu but all were different somehow. Weird. My friend spoke to the staff in Chinese and set us up with some delicious hot and sour soup.

Imagine a soup based off of an Italian beef sandwich. The broth tasted like minced pickled peppers and veggies, large slices of tomato added, and a little curry seasoning perhaps?

Loved this, ate it with rice

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Went to a kinda bizarre to me Chinese restaurant around the corner from Cellarmaker Howard st last night, looks like it’s an old shitty diner minimally decorated with a few Chinese wall hangings, oddly bright lighting, weird dingy place. 3 of us got the same menu but all were different somehow. Weird. My friend spoke to the staff in Chinese and set us up with some delicious hot and sour soup.

Imagine a soup based off of an Italian beef sandwich. The broth tasted like minced pickled peppers and veggies, large slices of tomato added, and a little curry seasoning perhaps?

Loved this, ate it with rice

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That looks like a slightly darker Sichuan sour beef soup, one of my favorite dishes.
 
Dunno how I’ve missed this thread before. I basically subsist on asian soups.


I happen to work a few hundred feet away from Menya Ultra, which has received a Michelin Plate. There was a lot of hype leading up to their opening and I wanted to hate it but the first time I went I was like “Oh goddammit it really is that good”. Out of the many, many ramen places I’ve been to, I’ve never had a tonkotsu broth that tasted like theirs – it’s got some funkiness to it that I really like.

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And luckily I also happen to live fairly close to a place that makes excellent bún bò huế. Usually I am the only customer there who doesn’t speak Vietnamese. Cash-only.

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This is my newest find of something I hadn’t had before, bún măng vịt, which is duck noodle soup with tender bamboo shoots.

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And my all-time favorite, sundubu-jjigae (Korean soft tofu stew), specifically with mushrooms. I used to have this every week, but now gochujang gives me acid reflux so I have to eat it more sparingly.

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GetchaPull My mum uses this recipe but with some tweaks.

Ingredients​

  • 35 grams of butter or margarine
  • 25 grams of flour
  • 0.25 liter orange juice
  • 2 vegetable bouillon tablets
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 teaspoon of turmeric
  • 2 tablespoons of French mustard
  • 0.25 liters of whipped cream
  • 1 orange
  • 150 grams (1 tray) oyster mushrooms
  • salt
  • pepper

Less orange juice, just enough that you're like, "what am I tasting, is that orange"? And replace the mushrooms with bacon bits and/or very thinly sliced leeks. Although I guess the mushrooms would be nice too.
And it doesn't have to be French mustard. We use Dutch mustard, not as sharp and obviously ground in a proper windmill.
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Some other soups I’ve enjoyed…


Bún riêu, a Vietnamese noodle soup with tomatoes and crab/pork meatballs.

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Mul naengmyeon, a cold Korean soup with a subtle beef broth and predominantly buckwheat noodles. This is a favorite hangover food for me.

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Biangbiang, Chinese noodles that are very long and kind of chewy. This is one of my favorite Chinese dishes and there’s a biangbiang place a few miles from me, but I rarely go there because it takes forever for food to come out and it’s not the best quality. I took this photo at Biang Biang Noodles in Seattle and it was one of the best versions I’ve had.

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And even though Menya Ramen is my favorite tonkotsu place, its popularity means that it’s kind of a pain to get a seat, so most of the time I end up eating ramen at Santouka, and specifically their toroniku, which is pig cheek. I love a chasu, but toroniku easily wins as my favorite cut of pork for ramen; if you leave it in the broth for a while sometimes it’ll literally fall apart. And Santouka is a whole chain, so if you live in a big city, especially on the west coast, there’s a decent chance there’s one near you.

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