Recipe : Alien feet soup (chicken and peanut)
by lilian ~ May 10th, 2006. Filed under: Recipe.
One of my son went running around, screaming, eewss, ewwss….gross, gross, alien in te soup when I put this on the dining table. Oh well, can’t blame him because I am sure many people, who are not Chinese will be grossed out too. Son insisted that those feets were used for stepping on chicken dung!
Well, don’t worry. Chicken feets are wrapped in another layer of skin when they are alive. That layer had been peeled off, leaving this whitish gelatinous texture of skin and bones. So, there aren’t any chicken dung soaked feets here, dear.
A closer look….
Recipe for chicken feet and peanut soup
- About 12 feet, i.e. six chicken will be legless
- 1 handful of peanuts (raw ones, with or without skin)
- 6 red dates
- 4 pips garlic
- salt and pepper to taste
- 2 bowls of water
Method:
Just boil everything for hours. It takes a while for the peanut to soften. By the time the peanut is soften, the feets will be yummylicious! Slurrrppp, pttoooi, slurrrpp…pttooi….and soon, the whole table will be full of tiny bones.
Hope none of the readers are grossed out. Welcome to Chinese cooking. 
BTW, I couldn’t get that son to even sip a spoonful of this soup.
May 10th, 2006 at 10:51 pm
haha.. yeah..the chicken feet really look ugly..but i’m sure the soup will be nice.. ^_^
May 10th, 2006 at 11:41 pm
Yeah, yeah, I agree with dragoncity…
The chicken feet, kinda a bit scary there^^
May 11th, 2006 at 12:35 am
oooooooohhhhhhhh…. this is my fav chinese soup la. and i’m only 25% chinese! hehehe…
May 11th, 2006 at 1:17 am
oh man… i loved that soup. my dad calls the chicken feet ‘adidas’ cause it has 3 long toes. somewhat similar to the adidas brand thingy…
May 11th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
I love chicken feet!Tell ur son that the chicken feet soup is aka adidas soup and will help him strenghten his legs and feet during his skateboarding.
hhahah…my mom brew alot of chicken feet soup for my athlete sis.
May 12th, 2006 at 7:03 am
*drooling on the keyboard*….though I have never eaten chicken feet soup this way, I am very sure it would taste nice. Now where could I get chicken feet here?
May 13th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
Very nice introduction to Penang food. I am using it as an introduction to my colleague who is planning to visit Penang in another couple of months. A beginner myself, I hope to post more as I learn more….. stay on. Cheers.
May 15th, 2006 at 9:23 am
Soup looks delicious but the pic I will have to say its the next scary thing to your snake pics LOL
May 15th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
slurrp! the only thing yummier than that is chicken feet with mushroom n water chestnuts.
July 6th, 2006 at 9:41 pm
I loveeeee chiken feet very very much!
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September 7th, 2007 at 1:52 am
because it’s fun, obviously!
October 13th, 2007 at 3:40 am
Never!