The soup they drink is not only ordinary "boiled soup" (that is, soup cooked in a short time), but also boiled soup or stewed soup for a long time (at least three hours or more). This kind of soup usually contains medicinal materials, which is a bit like mutton soup with medicinal materials on the outside that you usually drink. Its nutritional value is very high, and it has the effects of nourishing and beautifying, relieving summer heat, invigorating qi and promoting blood circulation, so many people like to drink it. However, you don't eat cooked materials, but eat meat or bones inside at most. Because the ingredients have been cooked for a long time, the nutrition has fallen into the soup, so the soup is a "treasure".
They generally don't drink the soup outside, because those soups are not authentic soups, but water and monosodium glutamate, which have no nutritional value and are thirsty. Only the soup cooked by mother or wife is the real soup. In addition to fresh vegetables and meat, they also use dry goods (such as scallops, dried oysters, octopus, turtles, etc. ) and medicinal materials (such as ginseng, angelica, yam, American ginseng, various beans, etc. ) to cook soup, the soup cooked is fragrant, fresh, moist and nourishing.
Speaking of the efficacy of those soups, I really don't know. Just drinking soup can make people fat, ruddy, slippery and recover ... It is really a good diet for urbanites who often lose their appetite. Of course, it depends on the formula of the soup. There are many Chinese medicine shops in Hong Kong, and you can consult Chinese medicine practitioners there at any time. As long as a soup is prepared and cooked at home, it can be cured, which is much better than eating Chinese medicine with side effects.