Prosperity Soup with Dried Oyster, Black Moss and Soybean

Why people make this soup

Around the Lunar New Year, Hong Kong families love dishes with auspicious names. Dried oyster (hao chi) and black moss (fa cai) together sound like “prosperity and good business,” so almost every household keeps some on hand. Nourilo found some plump, golden dried oysters and good-quality black moss, and simmered them with soybean, conpoy and red dates into a fragrant, richly savoury soup — festive in meaning, and traditionally taken to support the kidney, nourish the spleen and stomach, and benefit the heart and circulation.