Soup of the day: shark fin soup, courtesy of Zu.

Frying part of the soup’s ingredients: bamboo shoots and abalone mushrooms.

Zu likes to experiment with his culinary dishes. So today, he decided to use canned ingredients as opposed to the fresh ones he’s used to making the soup with. Of course, the soup didn’t turn out as satisfactory as the usual. The chief reason being that there was just a soupcon of shark fins, even though he used three cans! But in spite of that, it was still fairly tasty with the crunchy bamboo shoots and abalone mushrooms.

Well, I know this is some delicate hot soup, considering the amount of controversy over the cruelty done to sharks because they’re left to die slowly after having their fins lopped off. But I really can’t ignite any compassion within my small heart for sharks. No. When I think of sharks, I just think of Jaws. Yeah, blame it on Steven Spielberg.

So, I really won’t cannot stop having shark fin soup and my justifications are:
1. I only have this soup occasionally.
2. Half the time, I am eating pseudo-shark fins (like today).
2. If I am eating the real shark fins, they must be from some vicious sharks.