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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