Sunday, March 12, 2006
~ Bird Nest Soup with Ginko ~
Bird Nest and Ginko.I've got rather pricey cravings, don't I?
Been craving for the 200 baht Bird Nest soup at Nam Xing restaurant since Jan and I just can't figure out why there isn't any reasonably-priced Bird Nest with Ginko in Singapore?! That has got to be a huge market that everyone happened to miss out. But I can always prepare a huge pot of it at home! I mean how difficult can it be? Just dump everything and boil, right? I can even make it more healthy by adding less sugar. So I decided to DIY and bought a huge pack of Ginko and managed to psycho my mum into giving up 3 pieces of her precious bird nest.
500g of Ginko nuts $3.10
3 pieces of Bird Nest $54
Total Cost $57.10
Break Ginko Nuts 5 hrs (?!!?!)
Wash Bird Nest 0.5 hrs
Soak Bird Nest 4 hrs
Cook Bird Nest 2 hrs
Cook Ginko 1 hr
Total Time 12.5 hrs
And here's the fruit of our labour
...
TADAAA!
Er... no lar. Got this pic from google. Didn't take a picture of it cos I forgot. And why did I forget? It was damn bloody BITTER. 10 times more bitter than those tiny mega-bitter bittergourd. I figured it must have been due to the 1/2 a kg of ginko. I was too greedy! Ha!
But did I pick out those bitter thingy in the ginko nut?
Of cos I did lar! But the whole soup was still damn bitter. Really really bitter.
Lesson learnt. Cook the ginko and bird nest separately, and I cannot be too generous with the Ginko!
Will attempt again!!!
@ 5:01 PM
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