Simple Vegetable (chye sim or bok choy) Soup (菜心/小白菜汤)

Ingredients

1. 2-3 bunches of vegetables (chye sim or bok choy)
2. 3 small red onion
3. 1 tablespoon dried ikan billis (dried anchovy)
4. 200g minced pork
5. 2 eggs
6. 1 litre water
7. 1 teaspoon salt
8. 4 tablespoon cooking oil

Method

1. Peel the onion and slice thinly.
2. Soak the vegetables for 30 mins to 1 hour and wash cleanly of dirt and possibly pesticides (if not organic), cut into 5cm sections.
3. Beat the eggs in a bowl. Heat up a nonstick frying pan, put 1 tablespoon oil in, and pour in the beaten egg and spread out to make a thin omelette.  When done, break or cut into small pieces  of about 3-5 cm size. Set aside.
4. In a dry soup pot, or in a wok, heat up and add 3 tablespoon of oil.  Add in the sliced onion and ikan billis and fry till fragrant.  Add in minced pork and stir fry until it is cooked and breaks into small pieces.
5. Add in 1 liter water, and allow to boil.  Lower heat and simmer for 20 mins.
6. Add in vegetable and omelette. Allow to boil and add in salt to taste. Pepper optional.
7. If keeping to be served later, do not cover the pot, otherwise the vegetables will be overcooked (turned yellow).
8. Serve hot or warm.

This can also be used a soup based for rice noodles 面线 (mee sua), or 米粉 (bee hoon).  Boil the noodle separately in plain water, drain dry and serve in a bowl. Scoop the soup and ingredients over the noodles and serve.

Minced chicken can be used instead of minced pork.  Also, sliced meat can be used instead of minced.