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Tounao mutton soup

头脑tou nao

What it is

An early-morning medicinal soup of fatty mutton, lotus root and yam in a wine-and-herb broth, invented by a Ming-Qing scholar.

How to order it

Sold only at breakfast and best at old houses like Qinghe Yuan; eat it with the steamed bread.

Price band

¥15-30

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