She was telling me about this place, actually. She's been there a bunch of times, but I have never been. She said really close, but not QUITE right. But delicious nevertheless.
You guys are a fount of information.
She was looking for the soup style (she was living an hour away from Shanghai) and I was looking for the (I think) more cantonese style (I was working two hours into the mountains outside of Beijing). We will definitely have to try a couple of these places.
When I stayed there, I was mostly outside of the main cities, and I stayed at what was termed a "workers hostel" by my interpreter. The food every night that I ate was the food that the people there cooked, so I ate a lot of things without knowing exactly what they were. One of the things we had a couple of times was this odd soup. The broth was clear and there were floating balls that looking a little like eyeballs. Inside each of them were different sweets - some had a peanuty taste, some were a chocolaty taste and some were definitely sweet bean paste (my nemesis; why is sweet bean paste hiding in so many things?!
) Does anyone know what the soup is called?
