The Soup Queen

I tend to poke about the kitchen a lot more on weekends. Sweet red bean dessert with dried longan and rock sugar Cooking is my therapy. It gets me away from computers and the Internet for two days. Today, I made some red bean dessert for tea. Yes, for tea. We Chinese like our desserts for those in-between meal times. Actually you could drink/slurp this dessert any time of the day. For me, it just so happened that the dessert was ready around 4pm and tea it was. Red beans or adzuki beans are commonly used in Asian food. In Chinese cuisine, red beans are normally eaten in sweet form, but I have eaten it as a soup, a savoury version when my Mom-in-law boiled it as a soup with pork bones. Nic was aghast at the taste but like a dutiful son, he drank up the soup though he did tell me privately that it was rather weird to have a savoury red bean soup. I thought so too. All my life, I've grown up drinking a sweet red bean dessert so savoury red beans do taste odd! Red be...