Crabmeat Hot and Sour Soup

Hot and sour soup is a common soup that we can find in any Chinese restaurant or take out restaurant in US and A.Recently when we was celebrate my big day at a Chinese restaurant hubby request for a small bowl of hot and sour soup..I don't understand why he like egg drop soup ,wonton soup and hot and sour soup from Chinese restaurant and not my nutritious and delicious herbal soup that been boil for hours..Anyway,hubby always said the soup in American- Chinese restaurant suit him better than the expensive nutritious soup I make at home..He dunno what he been missing but he doesn't care .He refused to drink any of the herbal soup I make cuz it's has a strong overpowering Chinese medicine smell.He said bird nest soup is so in-hygienic.How can we use bird saliva and so on....*sigh* I gave up and never offer him any of my own make delicious soup to him..But I promised to make hot and sour soup for him since it's a easy and simple soup to make and it's doesn't need hours of boiling..Told hubby I can make better hot and sour soup then the restaurant..!! good to be true!! he said this is the best hot and sour soup he had!! haha!! he sucker for MSG!! but I didn't use MSG directly..I used chicken bouillon and I believed all the sauce or condiments have MSG included or the manufacture used other name instead of MSG!!

Ingredients:

3 liter chicken broth or water ,plus extra

2 tbsp chicken bouillon

200 gm lean pork,sliced thin

100 gm chicken breast ,sliced thin

50 gm crab meat (imitation or in can)

5 pieces baby corn,sliced think or bamboo shoot

1 box medium firm soft tofu,cut strip

1 cup green peas

1/4 cup apple cider vinegar

2 tbsp chili paste or sambal olek

2 tbsp sugar

salt to taste

2 drop of dark soy sauce

3-4 large eggs,lightly beaten

4-5 tbsp corn flour + 4 tbsp cold water dissolved

handful cut scallion

Method:

1:Prepare a medium stock pot at high heat with chicken broth or water and chicken bouillon..When water rolling boil add in sliced pork and chicken..Cook for 3 minutes before add in baby corn,crab meat,strip tofu,green peas,chili paste,vinegar,sugar,salt and dark soy sauce.

2:Cook for another 10 minutes or until bubbly boil,then slowly add in corn flour dissolved to thicken the soup in googy texture.Use spatula to stir all the ingredients well..Add in egg and quickly stir it again..Check the seasoning..
3:Remove from heat and scoop the soup to individual bowl.Sprinkle with cut scallion before serve warm with fried noodles(cracker).