Old Yellow Cucumber Soup "老黄瓜汤"

In Hong Kong, people usually cooked old yellow cucumber soup for the hot summer day.

What we normally used here are:

Old yellow cucumber

Carrot

"Tou Pot Leng" (optional) - is a kind of root for cleaning toxic in our body

Sweet dates

Madarin skin (soak till soft to remove the inner skin-they belive it'll make your body heaty)

Pork ribs

Directions
1. Scrub the skin of the old cucumber clean and cut it in half to scoop out the seeds. Cut into small pieces.

2. Blanch the pork ribs in boiling water for about 5 minutes and wash with tap water as to remove the irky bits. Drain and set aside.

3. In a pot, add madarin skin and bring to a boil before add in other ingredients. After which, simmer the soup over low heat for about 3 hours.

And the soup is ready to eat.