Homecooked 肉羹 - Thick Soup with Pork (2009.04.28)

This is a Taiwanese dish that my mom cooks fairly often. It's a soup that is thicken using tapioca instead of the standard corn starch in most soups. The pork is breaded with ground shrimp. The veggies include napa cabbage, tree mushroom, carrots, bamboo and an assortment of other things my mom didn't have. The soup's base is flavored with black vinegar. It's not as strong as white vinegar in taste, but has a different fragrant flavor white vinegar doesn't have. The soup goes very well with any type of noodles or rice.

The mandarin pronunciation sounds strange, but in Taiwanese it it pronounced "Bah Gee."