Yellow Cucumber Pork Rib Soup (老黄瓜排骨汤)

Here is another those Chinese traditional soup where you can find selling in food court.  Well instead of paying to buy from others, why know make it yourself ?  It is not that difficult.

Ingredients :-
老黄瓜，排骨，干蚝，红枣，干八爪鱼
Yellow Cucumber, Pork Rib, Red Dates, Dried Oyster and Dried Octopus are all that is needed to make this soup.  Dried Octopus is optional as it might not be easily purchase from supermarket.  The rest of the ingredients can be found in supermarket without any doubts.  1 Yellow Cucumber, 1 packet of Pork Ribs, 4 to 5 Dried Oysters, 4 to 5 Red Dates and 3 to 4 Dried Octopus will be enough to boil a soup to serve 5 to 6 person.

Cooking Instruction :-
1. Wash the Yellow Cucumber, scrub it if required as we are not going to peel off the skin. Cut the Yellow Cucumber into 2 halves ( cut horizontally ) then remove those seeds inside it.  Next cut each half into mid-size slices ( roughly about 4 slices will do, so total you will have 8 slices for the whole Yellow Cucumber ).

2. Soak the Dried Oysters, Dried Octopus and Red Dates in bowl of water to soften them, roughly 15 to 30 minutes will do.

3. Wash the Pork Ribs.

4. Boil a medium size pot filled with 90% of water.

5. Once the water is boiled, put in the Pork Ribs.  When Pork Ribs cooked, put in the Dried Oysters, Dried Octopus and Red Dates.

6. Next, put in the slices of Yellow Cucumbers and cover up the pot, turn to SLOW FIRE and let it boil for at least 4 hours.  If you have a Slow Cooker, everything will be easy.

7.  After at least 4 hours, the 90% of water probably left about 70% to 75% and the slices of Yellow Cucumber mostly "dissolves" and that is done and ready to serve.

Apart from the tasty soup, the Yellow Cucumber ( less the skin ), the Dried Oysters, Dried Octopus and Pork Ribs are all very nice to eat also.  See Daddies, why paid outside to get this soup ( for not so much of ingredients inside ) while you can do it yourself so easily for your family ?