Manchow Soup / Hot and Sour Soup

I would like to have 1/2 spicy soup please along with starters on a rainy day... Spicy soup?? Ok... Got you!! Hot and Sour Soup is the answer....Can I have some Fried Noodles too along? Ok then it is Manchow soup then :) .. No Matter the place , no matter the age, no matter the time, we can always enjoy a bowl if not two bowls of Hot and Sour Soup

You need 

Finely Chopped Garlic (20 pods)

Finely Chopped Ginger ( 2 inches)

Finely Chopped Green Chilli (3 medium)

Finely Chopped 1/2 Big Onion

Finely Chopped 2 large carrots

Finely chopped 5 medium size mushrooms

1 cup finely chopped cabbage

2 eggs

1/2 cup Sweet Corn

3 heaped tea spoon corn flour

5 cups vegetable stock

1 lemon

Take a pan add 1 tbsp oil .. put on medium flame

Add Garlic, green Chilli and Ginger

Sauté for 30 secs

Add onion .. Sauté 1.5 minutes

Add carrot , cabbage, sweet corn, mushroom...

Add salt and pepper according to the added vegetables

Now sauté for 2 minutes

For Manchow or Hot and Sour Soup

1 teaspoon Tomato Ketchup

1 teaspoon Chill Sauce

10 drops Vinegar

1/2 teaspoon soya sauce

Add just 1 cup water initially and then add Tomato Sauce, Soya Sauce, Chill Sauce and Vinegar

Mix thoroughly and then add remaining 4 cups of water...

Add total 5 cups water..

Add salt and pepper again .. Now according to the water added.. It should be little salty as later we are going to add Corn Flour

Add Lemon juice and just before water fully boils add the following corn flour slurry and keep mixing it..

Make slurry of corn flour—-

Add corn flour mixed in seperately in 5 tbsp of water.. mix it thoroughly so that there are no clumps

Keep mixing.. After adding corn flour, the water cools down..

Now again wait till the water just boils not fully boils

.. Now very slowly add egg ( two eggs beaten nice) 

Add one tbsp of egg and verry slowly stir in straight line motion ... 

Add another tbsp of egg and then repeat the stirring verrryyy slowly.. Little strands of egg drop will form..

Once everything boils you can bring it down and serve it along with Fried Noodles... By the way, the recipe for Fried Noodles given below :)

For Manchow Soup Fried Noodles ,

Boil Hakka Noodles.. Let them cool down, add little corn flour and deep fry them for very long until it becomes like chowmein