It is not necessary to boil Gobo as soup. Instead just as a drink. I used a slow cooker as usual.

Ingredients

1. 1 Gobo (ngau bong or 牛蒡) Stick
2. Some Wolfberry (Kei Chi or 枸杞子)
3. Water

Method:

1. Wash and peel the skin of the gobo.
2. Break or cut into smaller sizes so that they can fit into the pot.
3. Wash some wolfberry.
4. Put all into the slow cooker.
5. Add about 3/4 pot of water and boil (I set it to auto and boiled over night).

This is refreshing & cool when you’re hot!

Ingredients:

1. 1 - 2 cans Lychee
2. 4 - 8 Limes or Lemon
3. Ice cubes

Method:

1. Take a container or punch bowl or whatever.
2. Open the can of lychee & pour all the contents into the bowl.
3. Halves the limes & squeeze the juice out into the bowl. You can either include the lime into the mixture or throw away (after you squeeze the juice out).
4. Add some ice cubes into it & mix thoroughly.
5. Chill until cold.
6. Serve with some more ice cubes.

 

You can do this when you have leftovers of gobo soup (see soba in gobo recipe) that you boiled too much and roasted piglet meat that you take away from dinners. Quantity is adjustable. No other flavourings added as the roasted piglet meat is salty enough.

Ingredients (serve 2):

1. Roasted piglet meat (remove the bones, unless you want everything into the pot)
2. 4 cups Gobo Soup
3. 1 1/2 cups Uncooked rice (you can use cooked ones too)

Method:

1. Rinse the uncooked rice.
2. Use a rice cooker (my way) or pot.
3. Put all the washed uncooked rice into the pot.
4. Add the gobo soup and cook until porridge almost done.
5. Add the roasted piglet meat (as they are already cooked).
6. Cook a while more.
7. Serve while hot.

Note: Gobu soup can be prepared simply by having a section of gobo and 1 or 2 carrots, allow to boil and simmer for 3 hours (see soba in gobo recipe)

This is a simple dish. Suitable for people of all ages. It might be a bit bland in taste as it is plain. All natural flavours. You might want to give it a try if you’re always eating out, eating lots of flavourings such as MSG.

Ingredients:

1. 2 Eggs
2. 2 bowls water (1 more bowl if not using slow cooker)
3. 6-10 Filament Sticks (fake crab meat)
4. Japanese Soba (plain / flavoured)  (amount to serve 2)
5. Salt
6. 2 Carrots
7. section of Gobo (牛蒡)

Method:

1. Clean & peel off the skins of the gobos. Break / cut into shorter sizes.
2. Heat water in a soup pot until boiling.
3. Add the gobos into the boiled water.
4. Clean, peel off the skin & cut carrot into bite size. Put all into the soup pot.
5. Boil at least 3 hours ahead (low heat)
6. You may add in additional herbs if you want to.
7. When the soup is almost done, add salt to taste.
8. Heat water in another pot /pan until boiling.
9. Cook the noodles until soften. Remove. Run through cold water (if you like). Set aside.
10. Clean the filament stick and cook a while in the hot water to get them cooked. Remove. Set aside.
11. Hard boiled 2 eggs. Remove. Remove shells. Set aside.
12. Put the noodles, egg & filament sticks into a bowl. Then add the soup & serve hot.

Note:

• If you think that this recipe is really tasteless, you can add in your flavourings to make it better.
• Advisable, for those who don’t know how to boil soup using soup pot / any pot, PLEASE use slow cooker & boil over night.

Ingredients:

1. 2 small Green Apples
2. 2 small Red Apples
3. 1/4 cup Ketchup
4. 1/2 cup Oil
5. 1/4 cup Sugar
6. 1/2 tsp Salt
7. 2 Eggs

Method:

1. Clean the apples.
2. Cut the apples into any size you want.
3. Soak the apples in salt water. Drain & set aside. (soaking in salt water prevent the apple from oxidising hence turning brown)
4. Mix the ketchup, oil, sugar & salt until sugar dissolve.
5. Hard boil the eggs.
6. Sliced the eggs into smaller pieces.
7. Mix all together & chill.

Note: You may add the following to your sauce too (based on the actual recipe that I got from the Internet):

1. 1/8 cup Vinegar
2. 1/2 tsp Worcrestershire Sauce
3. 1/2 Onion, grated