Soup Menu For This Weekend

1. Burdock Soup with Black Bean (For Saturday, dinner time)
Dogs can't consume mushrooms right? So they get the Burdock Soup with Black Bean. Burdock prevents constipation by improving peristalsis (action of the intestines that squeezes food along). It also helps in removing body waste (detox) & prevents colorectal cancer. Black beans "bu xue" (tonifies blood), helps in diuresis (passing urine) & detox. Best of all, the recipe includes chicken, which the dogs will love.

2. Mushroom Soup with Pumpkin (For Sat, lunch time)

Everyone in the family likes this soup a lot. The pumpkin gives the soup a sweet taste. Unfortunately, it contains mushrooms too. I'll probably steam the remaining pumpkin for the dogs.

3. 8 Treasures Soup (For Sunday, lunch)

As the name suggests, it contains 8 ingredients. But as dogs can't take mushrooms which is a kind of fungi, they'll have to give this a miss coz it consists of mushroom & white fungus (xue er).

4. Lotus Seed Soup with Solomonseal Rhizome (For Sun, dinner)

This soup strengthens the spleen & heart & helps for people with palpitation (heart beating very fast). Chose this soup for Bobby. Wooo... Bobby & Ton Ton are going to get their beards dirty. :\