原鸡汁笋丝 Spring Bamboo in Chicken Broth

Pinyin: yuán jī zhī sǔn sī

It’s November now and this dish really hit the spot. It’s a combination of spring bamboo, mushrooms and assorted vegetables served in a bowl of some of the tastiest chicken broth I’ve had in a good long time. It really brought back memories of mom’s home cooking after a long cold day of playing outside.

Real authentic Chinese food is sometimes so dangerous as it more often than not brings fire to the table in the form of a small plate of napalm underneath a bowl of food, as was the case with this dish, but it’s also great to know that the food will be hot until you finish eating it. Somehow I can’t really see this style of cooking going over well in the all too paranoid safety conscious American society, but I’m certainly going to enjoy it over here.

I will certainly be hunting this dish down again, and it’s simple enough and tasty enough that I might even give it a try in my own kitchen.