🍲 My dad's Winter Melon Seafood Soup (冬瓜海鲜羹)!

Watch Daddy Lau teach us how to make Winter Melon Soup with Seafood! This is a classic Chinese comfort soup that my parents ate growing up.

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⏲ CHAPTERS ⏲
00:00 - Intro
00:55 - Prepare winter melon
02:10 - Prepare seafood + chives
03:32 - Start boiling, create marinades & slurry
04:14 - Separate & mix egg whites
04:57 - Start cooking winter melon
05:16 - Health benefits of winter melon?
06:35 - Thicken soup, add seafood
07:33 - Add egg, oils
08:29 - Taste & plate
09:11 - Meal Time!
09:57 - My parents’ first memories with winter melon
11:58 - What else can you make with winter melon?
12:36 - How to buy winter melon at the market
14:29 - Why is it called winter melon?
15:15 - How to handle + store winter melon
16:51 - How to cook so the melon doesn’t melt away?
17:20 - Through thick and thin

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