Soup

scarlet Desperatly Seeking a decent soup in Dubai. I have exhausted nearly every option; First Malaysian Restaurant Chinese/Thai at food courts Noodle House Japengo Chop Chop Wagamama the chinese reataurant at Ibn batuta And still no good soup. Please help - I am dreaming about a big bowl of chinese soup that is Authentic raidah best dishes are those that u cook urself :wink: try doing that scarlet You are right raidah - but with the vast array of ingredients required it's good to have it made for you too GAB :lol: Nice raidah! I make a great pho ga ( Vietnamese chicken soup) but a little time consuming-if you want to do it properly boiling the chicken making the stock etc. My husband makes a great laksa too, but same thing authentic is time consuming, oh, except for congee, or chicken rice porridge which is quick and tasty. Have you tried the Thai restaurant on Al Dyafia (spelling??) Street?-looks good and someone on here recommended it to me. raidah

• scarlet wrote:
  You are right raidah - but with the vast array of ingredients required it's good to have it made for you too

i dont cook much, but when i do, never use recipe books. just guide myself after what i feel it needs to be added, condiments i mean. so follow the tip of Gab, or if that is not for ur taste either, cook it urself and be proud of it :D scarlet You two are not very helpful today :cry: I am a fabulous cook - I just don't have access to a very usable kitchen at this point in time. If I wanted advice on how to cook it myself i would have asked; where can you get a variety of fresh noodles, bok choi, bean curd etc? raidah

• scarlet wrote:
  You two are not very helpful today :cry:
  I am a fabulous cook - I just don't have access to a very usable kitchen at this point in time. If I wanted advice on how to cook it myself i would have asked;
  where can you get a variety of fresh noodles, bok choi, bean curd etc?

:( sorry
have u tried to google it on the net? see what options u have, what restaurants, etc. and take some time in trying them RA scarlet, what chinese soup/s u after? I can make a variety of traditional/herbal chinese soups - no msg and no corn starch! KeithL

• scarlet wrote:
  You two are not very helpful today :cry:
  I am a fabulous cook -

Others need to tell you that.
So when can we sample your cooking :roll: GAB

• scarlet wrote:
  You two are not very helpful today :cry:
  I am a fabulous cook - I just don't have access to a very usable kitchen at this point in time. If I wanted advice on how to cook it myself i would have asked;
  where can you get a variety of fresh noodles, bok choi, bean curd etc?

OK- You can get fresh chinese noodles and fresh bean curd from Choithrams at Safa Park on Al Wasl as for the herbs and bok choi all supermarkets sell this stuff-substitute some spinach type stuff for the bok choi. I know Union Coop on Al Wasl has heaps of herbs (mint, parsley, all those smelly things) and spinachy guff at 95 fils a bunch, plus bean sprouts, nice fresh garlic and ginger etc. Even Union sells dried rice noodles etc plus you'll love their dried spice section-cheap as. They also have fish sauce, oyster sauce and chilli dipping sauce etc._ it is a matter of looking for it, because they do have it. For anything you can't get or substitute at Union buy at Choithrams or Spinneys. You'll save heaps shopping at Union Coop. It would be my bet too that some of the smaller supermarkets would have a fair bit of the stuff you are after. :D

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MaaaD scarlet there was a thread about a good chinese restaurant behind lamcy, maybe they will have good soup ? easternjewel

• KeithL wrote:
  
  • scarlet wrote:
    You two are not very helpful today :cry:
    I am a fabulous cook -
  
  Others need to tell you that.
  So when can we sample your cooking :roll:

yeh, I m free all week long :lol: fayz

• scarlet wrote:
  
  And still no good soup. Please help - I am dreaming about a big bowl of chinese soup that is Authentic

You need to cross the creek to the other side, there is one awesome place next to the rolex twin towers and another pretty good place across the street from traders hotel. sorry I forget the names but you can't miss them, just look for the tell tail red paper lights.
Good luck and if anyone runs across good pho at a resteraunt let me know, i'm on the hunt for some :) HP

• fayz wrote:
  
  • scarlet wrote:
    
    And still no good soup. Please help - I am dreaming about a big bowl of chinese soup that is Authentic
  
  You need to cross the creek to the other side, there is one awesome place next to the rolex twin towers and another pretty good place across the street from traders hotel. sorry I forget the names but you can't miss them, just look for the tell tail red paper lights.
  Good luck and if anyone runs across good pho at a resteraunt let me know, i'm on the hunt for some :)

Fayz habibi
well come back bro , how was your summer holidays? :roll: ajb

• GAB wrote:
  OK- You can get fresh chinese noodles and fresh bean curd from Choithrams at Safa Park on Al Wasl

GABS I thought you liked it authentic .... you should hand make your own noodles!! Cargirl

• GAB wrote:
  :lol: Nice raidah! I make a great pho ga ( Vietnamese chicken soup) but a little time consuming-if you want to do it properly boiling the chicken making the stock etc. My husband makes a great laksa too, but same thing authentic is time consuming, oh, except for congee, or chicken rice porridge which is quick and tasty.
  Have you tried the Thai restaurant on Al Dyafia (spelling??) Street?-looks good and someone on here recommended it to me.

We picked up a menu from it the other night ... looks great ... might try it on thursday ... Corcovado The closest I get to make a good soup was by: [color=red]Bachelors Cup[/color] u boil the water… empty the sachet... Stir … and voila tomato soup :) yeah i know i know i am a great chef :oops: :oops: GAB

• Corcovado wrote:
  The closest I get to make a good soup was by: [color=red]Bachelors Cup[/color] u boil the water… empty the sachet... Stir … and voila tomato soup :) yeah i know i know i am a great chef :oops: :oops:

Yuk,yuk, yuk! Nothing worse than packet or tinned soup-chuck chunder! :pukeleft:
Shouldn't take you longer than 20 minutes to make a really yummy soup. fayz

• HP wrote:
  
  Fayz habibi
  well come back bro , how was your summer holidays?

Sorry I just saw this, Thank you holiday was good, happy to be back. scarlet OK - it's one year later and I'm still trying to find a decent soup. Last night at Ruan Thai (Difayah street) They added rice noodles to their Tom Yam which was pretty good But have since tried Noodle Bowl on diyafah - no good Smiling BKK - they use dishwater as their soup base Zyng - no flavour Yum at Radisson on the creek makes a pretty close Laksa But still craving a big bowl of authentic Asian soup - any suggestions on new places? fayz Did you ever try Lan Qwai Fung (sp?) in Lamcey Concord Maybe because it is so darn hot in Dubai suop is not something that people order a lot - so no need to "perfect" it. fayz On a warm day I always crave a nice bowl of Pho, I wish I could find a restaurant that sold it. Btw another place to try that isn’t too bad is in Ibn Battuta food court. raidah

• Concord wrote:
  Maybe because it is so darn hot in Dubai suop is not something that people order a lot - so no need to "perfect" it.

well thats an aproach i never would have thought about... :idea:
in my country, during cold winter days there is nothing better than a nice hot chicken/beaf vegetable soup to warm u up.
also during hot summer, a refreshing fruit soup comes handy.
and anyways there, lunch is not lunch without a soup as starter.
so why hot weather would be in contradiction with eating soup?
interesting, in the US i had no soup at all. maybe because their conception of soup was more like a cream. back home soup means a more or less transparent liquid with vegetables/meat cubes/chicken, etc in it. it supliments the daily liquid neccessity of the body. thats why in hungarian the name we use for it is "the one with liquid". asian soups are not exactly creamy either...not that i know of
now again back to my question, why would u say in hot klima ppl dont wanna have soup? Concord

• raidah wrote:
  in my country, during cold winter days there is nothing better than a nice hot chicken/beaf vegetable soup to warm u up.
  also during hot summer, a refreshing fruit soup comes handy.
  and anyways there, lunch is not lunch without a soup as starter.
  

Is fruit soup cold? I imagine it is.
I just think that on a hot day- most days in Dubai - (regardless of AC) soup is not as appetizing. I also think that most people order things other than soup for appetizer. Many menus don't even have soups as appetizers.
But I've been wrong before...