Bitter Gourd Pork Rib Soup (苦瓜排骨汤)

Chinese New Year just over and bet must have eaten lot of heaty stuffs.  Here one of the traditional Chinese soup can help to cool the heat inside the body.  This soup is Bitter Gourd Pork Rib soup, a pretty common soup whereby you can find selling in food centers.

Ingredients :-
苦瓜，排骨，蚝干，八爪鱼干，红枣(可无)
Bitter Gourd, Pork Rib, Dried Oyster, Dried Octopus and Red Dates are the ingredients for it.  1 Bitter Gourd, a packet of Pork Rib between 300g - 400g, a few of Dried Oysters and Octopus, and a small handful of Red Dates will do.  All these ingredients are easily found in Supermarket.  Red Dates are optional !

Cooking Instructions :-

1. Wash the Bitter Gourd thoroughly as not going to peel off the skin.  

2. Next cut the Bitter Gourd into small portions (roughly 4 to 5 portions will do) and remove all those seeds inside the Bitter Gourd.  Must remember to remove all those seeds if not the soup will be extremely bitter.

3. Wash the Pork Rib, Dried Oyster, Dried Octopus and Red Dates.

4. 85% fill up a mid-size pot with water and boil it.

5. Once the water boils, put in the Pork Rib and once those are cooked put in the remaining of the ingredients.

6. Cover up the pot and slow boil for at least 4 hours.

7. Once done ready to serve.

Kids might not like it as taste a bit the bitter but is good for them so try to encourage them to drink.  Also the Bitter Gourd and Pork Rib if you dip them in Soy Sauce and ate it, they taste nice !!!