The Chinese, especially the Cantonese, believe
long-simmered soups with natural ingredients help boost our health.
Such soups are believed to be nutritious, easily
digested and the perfect anecdote for Beijing's dry, cold winters.
Sunshine Kitchen is a reasonably priced Cantonese
restaurant offering soups simmered with natural and original flavors for four
hours. The soups are boiled with purified water, and there are no additives in
the soups - not even salt. But tables are topped with saltshakers for those who
want to add a dash to their broths. More than 10 soup varieties are available
from 12 yuan a bowl.
Free-range chicken and snail soup with scallops and
mushrooms is said to help the stomach and intestines, and prevent cancer and
aging. Pork ribs with green and red carrot soup moisturizes a dry mouth and
throat.
And pork lungs boiled with fruit and tender cabbage
is said to strengthen the lungs and help beat back nagging coughs.
In addition to soups, the restaurant also functions
as a Hong Kong-styled cafe, with milk tea, coffee, prawn wonton noodles and
Cantonese small fries.
A braised pigeon costs just 19.8 yuan. There are the
popular, traditional dishes, such as sauted beef fillet with spring onion, beef
and carrot chops, and Cantonese steamed rice with sausage in terrines. Average
cost is 60 yuan per person.
East of Jinbao Dasha, 21 Jinbao Jie, Dongcheng district. 50 m east of C exit, Dengshikou subway station. 6528-2121.
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