10 Cheap Chinese Winter Soups for Seniors Living Alone

🥢 Everything my mother taught me about cooking for one, I wrote down for you. 📘 CHINESE COOKING FOR ONE - get it here: https://cookwithmeilin.com Do you love a slow, warm soup but stopped making it? Three hours for one bowl feels silly, and a big pot means the same soup every night until it goes bad. My name is Mei Lin. I grew up in Guangzhou, where no house on our street had heating and a clay pot of soup bubbled in the corner all winter. Today I will show you 10 cheap Chinese winter soups for one person. Each one is made in one small pot. You eat one bowl tonight and freeze three single bowls for the coldest nights of the winter. In this video: - My 4 rules for a clear, golden Cantonese soup - Homemade chicken broth with no preservatives, frozen in a muffin pan - Hong Kong tomato and beef soup, lotus root and pork, and watercress and pork - A meatless chayote and carrot soup for about 75 cents a bowl - Oxtail and peanut, pumpkin and pork rib, and a sweet potato ginger dessert soup - Chestnut and chicken soup, and my mother's pork and daikon soup - How to freeze soup in single bowls the safe way, and what never to freeze - 5 ways a slow soup goes wrong, and how to fix each one - A rice soup for the nights you are too tired to cook You do not have to make all 10. Start this weekend with pork and daikon: one small pot, one afternoon, four bowls. Eat one, freeze three, and write the date on the lids. Then on a cold night in January, there is a bowl of soup waiting for you. Made in October. By you. For you. What did your family eat on the coldest night of the year? Tell me in the comments. I read every single one. Watch more: 10 Cheap Chinese 10-Minute Soups for Seniors Living Alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBzKly2OaF8 Most People Waste Their Rice Cooker! Try These Chinese One-Pot Dinners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzBpZy-2G6E 10 Cheap Chinese 10-Minute Noodle Soups for Seniors Living Alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeHtWVvTQGw 0:00 Why a slow soup is never made for one night 1:38 Four rules for every soup 3:19 #10 Homemade chicken broth (no preservatives) 4:52 The book I put all of this in 5:09 #9 Hong Kong tomato and beef soup 7:21 #8 Lotus root and pork soup 8:52 #7 Watercress and pork soup 10:46 #6 Chayote and carrot soup with mushrooms 12:10 How to freeze soup the right way 13:26 #5 Oxtail and peanut soup 15:12 #4 Pumpkin and pork rib soup 16:23 #3 Sweet potato and ginger soup 17:57 #2 Chestnut and chicken soup 19:20 #1 Pork and daikon soup 21:43 5 ways a slow soup goes wrong (and the fixes) 22:42 Bonus: rice soup from the freezer 23:14 Where to start