recipe: Bird's Nest Soup, A Chinese Cuisine Options

[BeyondElite]

This is one of my favorite ...

成份 (Ingredients):
1-3/4 ounces cleaned bird's nest (See Note Below)
2 cups water
2 slices fresh ginger, each the size of a 25-cent piece
4 cups Chinese chicken Soup Stock (see recipe below)
2 tablespoons cornstarch mixed with 2 tablespoons water
salt
2 eggs, beaten
ham, cut julienne, very fine, for garnish

做法 (Procedure):
Soak the bird's nest overnight in fresh water. Using a fine mesh
strainer drain and rinse the nest. Place in a saucepan and add 2
cups of water and the ginger slices. Simmer for 5 minutes and
drain in the strainer, discarding the ginger. Pick out any impurities
and add to the soup stock and simmer for 1/2 hour.

Stir in the cornstarch mixed with water and cook to thicken. Add
salt to taste and pour the beaten eggs in a thin stream over the
top of the soup. Count to ten and gently stir the eggs into the
soup. The shredded-ham garnish will go nicely on the top of this
very delicately flavored soup.

筆記 (Note):
A good Chinese market should have nests available (or perhaps they
will order for you), but they are very expensive. The cost for
enough nest to make two batches of this soup will be somewhere
between $30 and $40.

Adapted From:
Recipe Cottage

[nyCzxfOx]

DUDE YOU ROCK!! I LOVE THIS STUFF!! i go out and buy it and its fricking 20-40 dollars for like a bowl :O I LOVE YOU DUDE

[s0emotionalx3]

OMG I love that stufff! Unfortunately it costs too much for my mom's taste..

[Saeglopur]

BEST STUFF ON EARTH!

[angel-roh]

a bird's nest? wha? rofl nice...interesting...but anyways i like how ur recipes are interesting way like u also put chinese words too!

[Miss[x]Tiff]

MMMM...x_X

[NiKECHiQ]

is it literaterally a bird`s nest ?? uhm ... thats quite interesting

[waccoon]

http://www.recipecottage.com/asian/birds-nest-soup.html
>_>

[gelionie]

is it literaterally a bird`s nest ?? uhm ... thats quite interesting

it just LOOKS like a bird's nest... not a real one of course...
it's sorta crunchy like crackers, but then the taste is different

[lilxroxy]

This is one of my favorite ...

成份 (Ingredients):
1-3/4 ounces cleaned bird's nest (See Note Below)
2 cups water
2 slices fresh ginger, each the size of a 25-cent piece
4 cups Chinese chicken Soup Stock (see recipe below)
2 tablespoons cornstarch mixed with 2 tablespoons water
salt
2 eggs, beaten
ham, cut julienne, very fine, for garnish

做法 (Procedure):
Soak the bird's nest overnight in fresh water. Using a fine mesh
strainer drain and rinse the nest. Place in a saucepan and add 2
cups of water and the ginger slices. Simmer for 5 minutes and
drain in the strainer, discarding the ginger. Pick out any impurities
and add to the soup stock and simmer for 1/2 hour.

Stir in the cornstarch mixed with water and cook to thicken. Add
salt to taste and pour the beaten eggs in a thin stream over the
top of the soup. Count to ten and gently stir the eggs into the
soup. The shredded-ham garnish will go nicely on the top of this
very delicately flavored soup.

筆記 (Note):
A good Chinese market should have nests available (or perhaps they
will order for you), but they are very expensive. The cost for
enough nest to make two batches of this soup will be somewhere
between $30 and $40.

yeah..it`s actually called swallows nest.. :]

燕窩 and it`s made frm swallow spit and etc.

it`s good tho..don`t eat too much. and btw. don`t buy the cheap ones. cos they usually bleach it ><

[nyCzxfOx]

it just LOOKS like a bird's nest... not a real one of course...
it's sorta crunchy like crackers, but then the taste is different

CRACKERS?
i've tasted many different kinds of birds nest >_> and it definetely doesnt taste like crackers/crunchy like crackers -_-

[lilxroxy]

it just LOOKS like a bird's nest... not a real one of course...
it's sorta crunchy like crackers, but then the taste is different

um.....it is a nest.....

[mai_z]

it just LOOKS like a bird's nest... not a real one of course...
it's sorta crunchy like crackers, but then the taste is different

ur thinking of the wrong nest..... this one is swallow spit...hahaha so yummy!! it's so friggin expensive tho! i just stick the the stuff that comes in little bottles, quick, easy and yummy

[eli5e]

lol cute name.. wana tryyy

[PinkTrash]

expensive. plus most is fake, considering now theyre making everything fake in china. no im chinese too, but just people have gone money crazy andd everythingg is fake.

[waccoon]

expensive. plus most is fake, considering now theyre making everything fake in china. no im chinese too, but just people have gone money crazy andd everythingg is fake.

Don't they bleach the fake ones?
Just get the real ones!
<_< I've yet to try one of these.

[sweetxsimplicity]

it just LOOKS like a bird's nest... not a real one of course...
it's sorta crunchy like crackers, but then the taste is different

It is made from bird's nest..
I've never tried it, it probably tastes really good, but it's made from swallow's spit...

[*wind&fire*]

idk where to get nest... ill try china town...

[Winter]

I love bird's nest.

I actually prefer bird's nest as a dessert. You know, sweet and cold.

I always get the real one coz here, we get bird's nest from the caves. And the funny thing is, the real thing is much cheaper than the fake one they sell to stupid tourists!

[azn_r4pf4n]

HOLLLY CRAP!! THAT STUFF ROXS manzz.. i gotta save this recipie. 2 bad its expensive. i only have it like once every 3 weeks or something, lol.

[misoshiru]

oh yumm. bird's nest soup is so good!

[gigiopolis]

it just LOOKS like a bird's nest... not a real one of course...
it's sorta crunchy like crackers, but then the taste is different

Um.

It's a real bird's nest... I think you're talking about those dishes where you have a really crunchy bowl shaped cracker thing, and you put vegetables and shrimp and other stuff all stir-fried together in it.

Anyways, I love that stuff. It's SO GOOD. Except...I don't really get to have it anymore, so it kinda sucks =\

I've tried the red kind before, that was good too. (FYI, The red kind is when the swallows go through some sort of phase/illness that makes their saliva mix with blood, so their nests turn out red.).

And PinkTrash, I agree with you. It's scary to read in the Chinese newspapers what sorts of fake stuff China "manufactures". That's why I'll only buy bird's nest from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other parts of Asia.

[sunissed14127]

hmmm...thats interesting...

[nyCzxfOx]

expensive. plus most is fake, considering now theyre making everything fake in china. no im chinese too, but just people have gone money crazy andd everythingg is fake.

i'd like to disagree x_x its not always fake u know

[*Statistik*]

sounds good..but naww

[lilnatcat]

Oooooooo....................birds nest!! I love this stuff!!!!! It also makes ur skin prettier too~ *drools*

[demolished]

wow, you have a very intresting ingredients and instructions. i like that. very educational and internationl thing to read. i never ate those stuf before even tho i'm chinese, my mom never made these before.

[Skyline Drive]

I'd eat it if I could find someone to make it for me.. heh. I should find a restaurant that sells it

[sw33t_rouge]

i just ate one in a bottle! it was soo sweet ><

[sheepy]

yum yum they're so gooooood ::drools::

[*basick*]

oh man that stuff is good but the real ish is expensive as hell

[toodlepops.]

never really tried it..but i heard its supppose to be very healthy?

[MzShortieAlli]

omg i love it soo much my dad used to make it wen my grandma was sick and he would let me have the leftovers! it tastes goood

[royalfreshness]

Are you serious... Hmm.. That's interesting with the bird's nest. I don't like ginger so I guess I woudln't try it :P.

[sammehmyst]

Personally, I think it sounds pretty bad-tasting.

I guess I'm different though.

[*salcha*]

ooh this stuff is sooo good!! i only had it a couple times, and im chinese

[gladz612]

my mom makes that for me almost every week when i use to be in HK... cuz it's apparantly really good for u. now i just drink isntant ones from a little glass bottle.. it's very good for your skin cuz it's high in protein.