Cordyceps-Flower Yam Goji Fox-Nut Teal-Duck Soup (chong cao hua huai qi qian shi shui ya tang)

Why people make this soup

Nourilo loves teal duck (a wild river duck) for soup because, traditionally, it nourishes yin and the kidney while being neither too cooling nor too heating — gentle enough for those who feel “too weak to take strong tonics.” This soup is balanced and mild, the kind he reaches for when a child is frail, often coughing or run down, or when an adult feels dizzy, weak-backed or troubled by frequent night urination.