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"Before leaving for work, add the 2 ingredients: red dates and dried longan and very hot water into a vacuum flask. Secure the top. Bring the vacuum flask to work. By mid morning, you will have a nice hot flask of sweet soup.

Dried longan helps blood circulation and is good for ladies who feel cold during their menstrual cycles. Red dates..."

Ingredients: red dates, dried longans...

"American ginseng is reputed to be a gentle cooling herb and candied dates gives extra sweetness to the clear broth.

The recipe here uses the thermal cooker but you can use the slow cooker too. Use a normal soup pot for the first 20 minutes and shorten the cooking time by about 1 hour."

Ingredients: candied dates, ginseng roots...

"This is a traditional favorite in Hong Kong, found in most dessert houses and revered for its heartwarming and revitalizing properties. It can just be as easily prepared at home, and is sure to warm even the coolest of days (though it's popular all year-round). Yellow, red, and purple sweet potatoes are commonly found in the market, though yellow..."

Ingredients: fresh gingerroot, red dates...

"In my neighbourhood there is a restaurant that specialise in food as medicine. This is a version of the black chicken soup they make. It is considered a general tonic that helps boost energy levels. Black chickens are not always easy to find outside of a good Chinese butcher but you can use a small chicken instead. Black chicken are a small chicken..."

Ingredients: pepper, coriander leaves...

"Summer weddings often lead a year later to… summer babies! I’ve made this recipe for five friends, all of whom had recently given birth. To help restore balance in the form of “heat” to these new moms, black chicken (chicken with black skin) is traditionally cooked for them.
I’ve adapted the Black Chicken Ginseng Soup from Betty Saw’s original..."

Ingredients: ginseng roots, Chinese wolfberries...

"Slightly bitter in taste, but good for health. Serve with steamed white rice."

Ingredients: pepper, ginseng roots...

"This is a cake traditionally served on Chinese New Year. It doesn't appeal to everyone, but a lot of people like it."

Ingredients: dates, glutinous-rice flour...

"This is a dessert that can be have at any time of the day."

Ingredients: dates, ginger, honey...

"This is a Chinese style sweet porridge using a rice cooker with "SLOW COOK" function or you can use a slow cooker"

Ingredients: rock sugar, screwpine leaves...

"I'm posting this recipe for the Chinese/Vietnamese New Year Tag Game—February 2008
The recipe is from 'The Joy of Wokking" by Martin Yan.
The pudding may be prepared ahead and refrigerated until it time to steam it.
This dessert is often served at banquets in Northern China."

Ingredients: red cherries, green cherries...