Rice Wine Soup...

Hello and how are things getting on? I'm sorry for the long silence... I needed time to cook this one up! Heh! Heh! Of course, I'm only joking... I'm actually trying to cook up an excuse.

By the way, the ingredients for this 'excuse' are as follows:

First, heat cooking oil in a frying pan. Fry ginger and chicken until slightly cooked and fragrant. Add a few dashes of sesamee oil and light soy sauce. Turn off fire and empty contents of the frying pan (without the spatula) into a pot. Avoid using a crackpot because he or she might drive you up the kitchen wall.

Add water into the pot and bring to boil until chicken is cooked. Continue to boil until the water turns into soup. While waiting for this to happen you can chat with your family or friends or even pay a quick visit to the toilet (cooking up excuses can cause the bladder to fill up quite quickly... nervous...).

When the soup is ready, add the rice wine and bring to boil. Add salt and sugar to suit your taste.

Jokes aside, this recipe should be for real and serves about 3 persons. Try it... you might like it... and please let me know, so that I can try it myself. The rice wine mentioned here is the Chinese version of Tuak and not the cooking rice wine (the colourless, clear liquid) which you can find in small bottles.

Until then, here's wishing you all the best in your tests and assignments and happy cooking. Take care and God bless.

Hick... hick...
Bart