Patriotic soup
salt, sesame oil | |
| Patriotic soup | ||||||
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Hanyu Pinyin | hùguó cài | |||||
| Literal meaning | Protect the country dish | |||||
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Patriotic soup (
Teochew :hu gog chai) is a vegetable soup originated by Teochew people. It was developed during the final year of China's Song dynasty
as an improvisational dish.
History
According to the locals at the Guangdong Province,[1] prior to the Battle of Yamen, Song's last emperor Zhao Bing and his regime's remnants sought shelter in a monastery at Chaozhou. The monastery's monks served an impromptu vegetarian soup made of edible plants, edible mushrooms, and vegetable broth. The emperor loved the soup and named it "protect the country dish" or "soup for safeguarding the nation" (護國菜).[2][3] A later generation named it in English "patriotic soup". After Zhao Bing died, the preparation of the soup became a way to honor the last Song emperor.
Preparation
The soup became a part of
sweet potato leaves, other varieties include amaranth, spinach, ipomoea aquatica and other leafy greens; and alternative broths such as beef or chicken.[4][5][6] Other ingredients are often added such as beaten eggs,[7] shredded dry cured ham, tofu, cellophane noodles, etc. Guangdong Province's restaurants routinely decorate the soup in a taijitu diagram. However, the most authentic version of the soup typically is homemade and simply prepared just using leaf vegetable, edible mushrooms, and vegetable broth.[8]
See also
References
- ISBN 9789621446237.
- ^ "Nanyuan Restaurant - Authentic GD Cuisine". newsgd.com. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ISBN 9787119028248.
- ISBN 9780714872247.
- ^ "护国菜（菠菜羹）". 豆果. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
- ^ 方曉嵐; 陳紀臨. "護國菜". myCOOKey (in Chinese). Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ "护国菜（菠菜羹）". 豆果美食. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ "生活夜校：饮食也"护国" 原来关佢事……". 东网. 东网. October 2019. Retrieved 2019-10-21.