"Soup" is a very important part of the daily meal for GuangDong people, and it's known that the GuangDong people would like to add different Chinese herbal medicine into their soup in different seasons. The soup which I was eating is just one of them, a chicken soup cooked with a lot of ginger and other ingredients. Why would the Cantonese will cook their soup in this why and is there only the Cantonese cook the soup like this in China?

According to traditional Chinese herbal medicine theory, it's better to prevent the disease than to cure it after the disease comes; and food is batter than the medicine because most of the medicine are toxic to human body. And most of the Chinese herbal medicine are also one of the vegetable on our dinner table. So in China the local food is mostly representative of the local climate and the environment.

Let's back to GuangDong soup, as one of the representative meal in the Southern China, GuangDong soup is the wisdom of the Cantonese fighting against the hot and humid weather. By eating a bowl of soup with seasonal Chinese herbal medinine, it'll help to prevent most of the disease which is popular locally. It sounds miraculous right? Yes it's nearlly the basic skill of any housewife to cook a delicious but powerful for their family.