hi hello! Wesley here. This is a recipe for a hot and sour soup that you'll frequently find as the complimentary soup that you get in a lot of Chinese lunch eateries. More specifically, this version adds to our Bay Area Restaurant Hack series, as it draws its inspiration from the popular Oakland spot Shan Dong. This soup is often served as a free appetizer cause it's mainly composed of cheap pantry ingredients, like shiitake and wood ear mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and tofu. For today's version however, I'll be deviating from the original slightly with the addition of some poached and shredded chicken, which I think will be a nice added protein.

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Woo Can Cook is a series where we reproduce fun foods and recipes from my childhood. Some of them are authentically Chinese and/or pan-Asian, but a lot of them are odd Americanized versions that I inherited from my parents and grandparents while growing up in the Bay Area/California. We're live streaming every Tues/Thurs at 6:30PM PST, Weds at 6PM PST, with new recipes out every Friday!