Night-Blooming Jasmine, Goji Berry and Fresh Fish Soup

Why people make this soup

Night-blooming jasmine (Telosma cordata) is a climbing shrub whose small yellow-green flowers open in the evening, releasing a delicate, intensely sweet fragrance. In Chinese food therapy, the flowers are valued not just for their beauty but for their traditionally documented ability to clear liver heat, brighten the eyes, and help with conditions like redness, irritation and clouding of the cornea. Nourilo recalls encountering wild clusters of this plant growing along a hillside on a trip to one of Hong Kong’s outlying islands — he picked a generous bunch and made this soup with scrambled eggs and sliced pork that evening. It was both delicious and nourishing. Paired with goji berries, long celebrated for nourishing the liver and kidneys and supporting eye health, this becomes a beautifully simple, fragrant soup that is ready in under 30 minutes.