Winter Melon Soup - cooked by me

Yesterday, I decided to cook winter melon soup ~Tong Qwa soup for my love one because recently the weather at Penang island was hot and warm. My love one is also working from 9am-10pm today. Thiking of giving a surprise for my love one. 

I went to Sunshine Farlim, the old sunshine mall to buy the materials for the soup. The old sunshine is still up and they have rent it out to other vendors for them to sell thier products. it is like a market but an air con market style. 

I bought the melon (enough for 4 person), 3 drumsticks which is being choped into small pieces and also 100g of dates. After that, I went back home to start the cooking. I boiled a pot of water and waited for it to heat up. Then I put in a piece of chicken stock and also the chickens into the boiled water after I have clean the chickens (removing the parts that is not needed). Then I left it to boil in a small fire so that the taste of the chicken will be soft when eating it. 

Once the aroma of the chicken can be smelled, I put all the winter melon that has been cutted into small pieces into the pot. Slice a bit of the dates so that the taste of the dates combines with the soup as well.  You just need to boil the soup until the melon is soft and also the lovely aroma of the soup can be smell. 

Once it soft, taste the soup and add in some salt for the soup taste perfections. Serve it while it is hot. for this soup, I got a pass from my love one cause it was nice....

Hope you all can enjoy or tried it out. Although it is a simple soup but to make the soup for some one you love, it will taste differently. Enjoy!!