Hot and sour soup can refer to soups from several Asian culinary traditions. In all cases the soup contains ingredients to make it both spicy and sour.
"Hot and sour soup" is a Chinese soup claimed variously by Mandarin and Sichuan cuisines as a regional dish. The Chinese hot and sour soup can be either vegetarian or meat-based, and often contains ingredients such as day lily buds, wood ear fungus, bamboo shoots, and tofu, in a broth that is flavored with pork blood.[1] It is typically made hot (spicy) by red peppers or white pepper, and sour by vinegar. |
