Blood-Nourishing Beauty Chicken Wine Soup

Why people make this soup

High blood pressure gets all the attention, but plenty of people run low — often young women, those depleted after childbirth, people with weak digestion, and those who do a lot of mental work. Nourilo was teaching a postnatal-care class in Fanling when a student brought him a homemade bottle of glutinous rice wine, the kind her hometown loves best. He used it to cook this “blood-nourishing beauty chicken wine soup” — fragrant beyond words. Besides being a classic for new mothers, it is traditionally regarded as especially good for people prone to low blood pressure.