Monkey Brain Soup

Name: Monkey Brain Soup
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 2 h
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 (about 2500 g) Live monkey (stunned, throat slit to bleed, scalded with boiling water to remove hair); 150 g Lean pork; 100 g Ham; 100 g Chicken; 25 g Ginger (sliced); 3 g MSG; 10 g Sugar; 5 g Salt; 15 g Shaoxing wine; 2500 g Fresh broth

A celebrated Guangzhou delicacy: a prized broth stewed with the brain of a live monkey together with chicken, ham, and other ingredients.

2 hours

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Ingredients

Live monkey (stunned, throat slit to bleed, scalded with boiling water to remove hair) 1 (about 2500 g)

Lean pork 150 g

Ham 100 g

Chicken 100 g

Ginger (sliced) 25 g

MSG 3 g

Sugar 10 g

Salt 5 g

Shaoxing wine 15 g

Fresh broth 2500 g

Instructions

Process the live monkey

First stun the live monkey, cut the throat to drain the blood, scald with boiling water to remove the hair, then cut off the head, pry open the skull to extract the brain, place in a bowl, and steam over medium heat until cooked. Stew the monkey head with partridge or owl meat together until the meat separates from the bones; this is the monkey head soup.

Prepare the broth

Remove the monkey head and place it in a bowl. Add the lean pork, ham, chicken, ginger slices, MSG, sugar, salt, and other seasonings to the fresh broth and simmer over the heat. Place the small bowl holding the monkey brain on top of the soup to steam, and once cooked, place the monkey brain inside the monkey head in the soup.