Hototay

Hototay is originally a rich and delicious chinese soup. I remember when I was little we use to buy the best tasting Hototay beside Maria Claris theater.

Ingredients:
125 g. of boiled or steamed pork meat or chicken
75 g. of boiled or steamed pork liver
3-4 boiled chicken gizzards
6-8 steamed dumplings (recipe and instructions here)
7-8 c.of meat or chicken broth
a variety of mushrooms (shiitake, abalone, oyster or straw), a few pieces of each kind
1 carrot, sliced
1/4 head of native cabbage
1/2 head of garlic, crushed and peeled
1 onion, peeled, halved and thinly sliced
2 eggs
1 tbsp. of cooking oil
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
Cut the pork meat and liver into thin slices. Cut into 1/4 x 2 strips. Cut the gizzards into thin slices.

Peel and cut the carrot into florets or rings about 1/8 thick.

Shred the cabbage.

If you are using shiitake mushrooms, cut off the stalks and slice the caps thinly. If you are using oyster, abalone and straw mushrooms, cut them in half.

Heat the cooking oil in a large saucepan or casserole. Saute the garlic and onions until fragrant. Pour in the broth. Add the carrots and bring to a boil. Season with salt and pepper. Add the meat, liver and gizzards and bring to another boil. Add the cabbage and let boil once more. Lastly, add the dumplings and the mushrooms. As soon as the soup boils again, count 5 seconds then turn off the heat. Add more salt, if preferred. Ladle immediately into a soup tureen. While still very hot, break two eggs on top of the soup. Stir in the eggs, breaking the yolks, and ladle into individual soup bowls immediately.