Are East Asian soups supposed to taste this bland?
I didn’t follow one specific recipe but combined different ones I saw on Pinterest
>bok choy
>shitake mushrooms (my grocery store didn’t have enoki)
>baby carrots
>bamboo shoots
>water chestnuts
>fried tofu
>sesame oil
>suy sauce
It doesn’t taste BAD. There’s not a bad small or taste, it just tastes watery and plain. Is this how it’s supposed to be?
>didn't follow any specific recipe
>only seasonings are soy sauce and sesame oil
>for some reason this soup is bland
based moron
What seasoning? Literally every recipe I saw online only called for soy sauce and sesame oil
Five-spice, chilies, Szechuan peppercorn, ginger, garlic, galangal, kefir lime leaves
I thought of some more
miso, fish sauce, seaweed
Skill issue
Where's the fricking meat?!
Most Asian soups are made using a meat stock.
Don't fricking tell me you're a fricking vegan, cause that excludes you from frickton of Asian soups.
nta but most asian soups originate from struggle meals that didn’t consist of meat
source: my butthole
Have you seen asians? They are like super tiny compared to humans
Speaking anecdotally (as an Asian): my mum never makes soup without meat. She did one time because my dad had to go on a diet and even he couldn't eat it.
In fact, they even laugh at White vegetarians for eating noodle soup, getting it with no meat assuming it's vegeterian, because the soup itself is a meat stock.
I can only think of the Japanese who have miso and dashi.
>they even laugh at White vegetarians for eating noodle soup, getting it with no meat assuming it's vegeterian, because the soup itself is a meat stock.
Why are Asians like this? I remember a Chinese lady trying to sell me egg drop soup that obviously had chicken broth in it
based asians BTFOing privileged white liberal homosexuals
Idk, why would I add meat to a light soup? A stew yeah, but a soup that’s supposed to be a lunch?
>meat turns soup into a stew
How do you think ramen is made?
You've never had chicken noodle soup for lunch?
Ramen is a bit heavier than what I was initially going for
Pic rel is what I wanted
Says you need an onion broth.
chicken stock isn't heavy you dumb gay.
I'm making proper miso for the first time today or tomorrow. Got all the ingredients etc. I'll report back with my recipe if it doesn't taste like shit. One thing I'll mention though is you'll need to make a trip to the asian grocer to get the dried kelp, bonito flakes and dried mushrooms for the stock. Oh and the miso paste too. Not much to it other than steeping the first three things to make a base, then adding paste. Stir. then when ready, add silken tofu, scallion and enoki, wakame or whatever you feel like.
The superior european soups don’t require meat
you can literally see the chunks of pancetta in that soup lmao, also it was 100% made with chicken stock
Apart from what others have said about stock and seasonings, you may have been missing the right amount of salt. Broth like that tastes of absolutely nothing until you reach a certain salt level.
Start off by frying a shallot sliced in half face down, slices of garlic, ginger, and carrot in hot oil until the shallot face is very brown, then add the water. That gives a passable quick base for a vegetable soup.
>I didn’t use a recipe
>Asians can’t soup
You’re just bad at this
use some Krill next time so you'll have a nice light seafood broth along with vegtables
>inb4 wahhh vegetable soup too plain
Then go suck a salt stick homosexual
baleen ass homie
>It doesn’t taste BAD. There’s not a bad small or taste, it just tastes watery and plain. Is this how it’s supposed to be?
Yes. The rest of the world doesn't like saturated salt, sugar and vinegar. We prefer real produce. Imagine that.
yeah, that the upsell the cat looking asians try to sell to you. You too can buy your cats some frisky feast.
Just remember that that what you see in Chinkytown isn't just friendly kittens and puppers.