10 Cheap Chinese 10-Minute Noodle 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 You live by yourself now, and dinner has turned into toast, or crackers over the sink. Every recipe makes a big pot, and nobody wants to eat the same soup until Friday. My name is Mei Lin. I grew up in Guangzhou, in the south of China, and I have been cooking in America since 1987. In China, noodle soup is the dinner for one person. Every bowl is made one at a time, in about ten minutes, and most cost less than two dollars. In this video: - Four rules that make every noodle soup work, including why the noodles cook in their own pot - How to measure one bowl of broth and one serving of noodles, so nothing is wasted - Spring noodles, the fifty cent soup made right in the bowl - Fish ball and rice noodle soup, soft for tired teeth - The cornstarch trick that keeps cheap pork soft and silky - Tomato and egg noodle soup, with the ketchup secret many Chinese homes use - A sesame peanut noodle soup from things already in your cupboard - A ten minute beef noodle soup that tastes like it cooked all afternoon - Hong Kong breakfast noodles with Spam and egg - Long-life noodles, the birthday bowl you make for yourself - Cantonese wonton noodle soup, and the noodle shop way to build the bowl - Four ways noodle soup goes wrong, and how to fix every one No fancy equipment and no big pot. Just one small pot, a kettle, and one bowl. Everything here uses noodles and broth from any grocery store or Asian market, and every recipe is for one person. What bowl of noodles do you remember from when you were young, and who made it for you? Tell me in the comments. I read every single one. Watch more: 10 Cheap Chinese 10-Minute Soups for Seniors Living Alone https://youtu.be/CBzKly2OaF8 Most People Waste Their Rice Cooker! Try These Chinese One-Pot Dinners https://youtu.be/PzBpZy-2G6E Most People Are Using Their Air Fryer Wrong! Try These Chinese Tricks https://youtu.be/t52TClYr1h4 0:00 Ten noodle soups for one 1:34 Four rules for every noodle soup 2:52 #10 Spring noodles 4:55 The book I put all of this in 5:12 #9 Fish ball and rice noodle soup 7:01 #8 Shredded pork and cabbage noodle soup 8:56 #7 Tomato and egg noodle soup 10:51 #6 Sesame peanut noodle soup 12:27 #5 Mushroom and tofu noodle soup 14:19 #4 Ten minute beef noodle soup 15:43 #3 Hong Kong breakfast noodles 17:27 #2 Long-life noodles 19:04 #1 Cantonese wonton noodle soup 21:18 Four ways noodle soup goes wrong 22:12 How I keep noodle soup ten minutes away 22:44 Soft bowls for tired teeth 22:56 Where to start tonight