PORK SOUP
猪 肉 湯
gue york tong

2 cups lean pork cut into fragments
2 teaspoonfuls cornstarch
2 teaspoonfuls Chinese sauce
5 cups primary soup
2 cups Chinese mushrooms
A few drops sesamum-seed oil
3 cups star melon cut into small pieces after the rind is removed
Salt

(a) Mix the pork, cornstarch, Chinese sauce, and salt

(b) Bring the primary soup to a boil. Then add the pork mixture and the mushrooms, and cook for 1/2 hour.

(c) Ten minutes before taking soup off stove, add the melon.

FISH SOUP
魚 湯
yue tong

1 five-pound fish
5 pints primary soup
2 cups water chestnuts
2 cups bamboo shoots
1 cup Chinese mushrooms

(a) Dress the fish and cook until soft. Take out bones. Tear the meat to pieces (1 1/2 inches long).

(b) Cut the secondary vegetables into dice. Cook for 20 minutes.

(c) Put the vegetables and the fish into the primary soup, and cook for 15 minutes.

(d) Add Chinese gravy. Stir the soup well and take from the stove. Serve in bowls. Garnish each bowl.