Hot and Sour Soup (Beijing/Sichuan)

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Hot and sour soup is a Chinese soup and popular regional cuisines of Beijing and Sichuan as a regional dish. The Chinese hot and sour soup is usually meat-based, and often contains ingredients such as day wood ear fungus, bamboo shoots, and tofu, in a broth. It is typically made hot (spicy) by white pepper, and sour by vinegar.