Earth Jar Treasure – You Won’t Need The Doctor After Drinking These Soups!

If you want a good bowl of herbal soup, Earth Jar Treasure is the place to go. As their signage says, their soups are “health in a bowl”. You can expect the soups here to be nothing but herbalicious.

What’s more, the soups are broiled in these small earthen jar pots, which helps to lock in all the flavours in just that one bowl. You know it’s going to be intense.

Let’s start with the mildest soup of the lot. Even if you’re not a fan of herbal soups, this will delight your tastebuds nonetheless. The Healthy Chicken Soup ($6.50) is a solid bowl of herbal chicken broth.

Even though the herbs that came in a big pouch seemed like it would overpower the chicken flavour, they actually accentuated it. The chicken was tender but quite dry. Regardless, I imagine this soup would be really comforting in this rainy season. If you’re not used to herbal soups yet, this would be the safest choice as an introduction.

The Cultivate Blood Black Chicken Soup ($7) was like the sweeter, more herbaceous cousin of the Healthy Chicken Soup. Just the name itself sounds so traditional. But my oh my, this soup really tasted premium.

Mind you, while the chicken stock is the base of the soup, it’s really the herbs that take centre stage here, and they’re quite potent. The sweetness that I mentioned earlier came from the honey dates that they added into the broth, which is said to tonify blood (fits into the whole cultivating blood theme I suppose.)

The black chicken somehow wasn’t as dry as the previous chicken, so I enjoyed eating it with my rice.

I purposely saved the Salted Veg Duck Soup ($6) for last. My gut told me that it would be the strongest tasting one, and I was right.

My eyes popped open the moment the first sip hit my tongue. This was the most potent soup yet. And by potent, I mean very salty and very sour.

As someone who was actively prevented from drinking this soup when I was younger, I didn’t know what the norm was supposed to be. So, I consulted my colleague, who said that the tang from the salted vegetables was pretty much expected. However, it is a lot saltier than most.

There’s half a pod of chilli added into the soup, which gave it a bit of spice as well. I guess this soup would be the epitome of what all Chinese grandparents would call “heaty”.

The duck was tender enough for you to lift the meat off the bones with your chopsticks. All the taste of the duck has basically seeped into the soup, so what you’re left with is just some good old duck without the distinctive taste.

You would have to consume this soup with a bowl of rice ($0.50/bowl)! I recommend getting the cabbage rice, as it is the same price as the white rice, but a lot more fragrant and yummy.

I was curious about what the gigantic earthen pots at the front of the stall contained, so the owner graciously let me sneak a peek. Inside the pots was Great Health Duck Soup that was broiling at the moment. I regret not finding out sooner, as I would’ve given it a try too.

If you love herbal soups, you definitely do not want to miss Earth Jar Treasure. They are open daily except for alternate Mondays, so be sure to check their Facebook page before you head over.

MissTamChiak.com made anonymous visit and paid its own meal at the stall featured here.

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