To bring in the new year we present our next delectable Chinese dessert soup. This subtly delicious and comforting sweet soup will warm your heart and tummy in the depths of any wintery chill. Requiring only a few ingredients, this Lotus Seed Egg Tea (not sure why it’s called a ‘tea’ and not a soup?) 蓮子蛋茶 is deceptively simple to make.
The result is a beautifully golden hued soup with a clear sweet delicate taste, bejeweled with melt in your mouth lotus seeds and sweet soft red jujubes. Oh, and there is the added delight of a hard boiled egg! The egg is my favorite part, the slippery egg white and the melty egg yolk just tastes so good slurped in with the soup! It's the perfect afternoon snack for a wintery day, both fortifying and comforting.
Add-on Note: I just found out that this tea is served to newlyweds to symbolize the hopes that they will soon conceive children. The rather obvious symbols being the 'seed' and the 'egg'--he he!
