This is a menu I tried to resemble mixed pork soup at Ah Soon Kopitiam. This is the best I could do as I suspect they still have some ‘secret ingredients’ that I have not discovered yet. This soup is rather easy to prepare, although not as easy as ABC. Not too sure about the function but I guess it have some cooling effect because of the bittergourd. Don’t worry, the soup don’t taste bitter at all because of the preserved vegetables.
For a lazy house-gf like me, I bought a ready-to-use fried onions in oil and instead of boiling the soup using pig/chicken bone, I opt for chicken cube.
Ingredients:
1 block of soft tofu, cut into few pieces
3 petals of preserved vegetables
1 red tomato, cut into 4 pieces
5cm cut of bittergourd
Fried onions in oil
1 Chicken stock cube
A few petals of lettuce
Minced meat/lean meat/fresh fish slice (beef and mutton not recommended)
Water
Boil the water in the pot. While waiting cut the bittergourd into 4 pieces, remove seed and its soft white middle part. Cut again into smaller pieces and immerse in water, to remove its bitterness. Soak the preserved vegetables in water.
Once the water boil, put in tomato and preserved vegetables. Let it boil until you can see the tomato turning soft or the skin started to wrinkle. Add in a piece of chicken cube and let it simmer for around 10 minutes.
Mix the minced meat with cornstarch, pepper, little bit of salt and sesame oil. Scoop the meat (around the size of a grape) and put into the soup until the meat finished. Once the soup boils, add in fried onions according to your like. Turn off the fire and add in the lettuce.
Alternately, you can take out the meat from the menu, if you wanted the soup to be vegetarian.

