Published Recipe - Shark bone soup recipe

Shark bone soup Recipe

Ingredients:
a) 100 grams Dried shark fin bone
b) 50 grams Jin Hua Ham (Dry-cured ham)
c) 300 grams lean meat
d) 10 pieces Chicken feet*
e) 1 teaspoon Pepper grains (flattened)
f) 2 Litres Plain water

Seasoning:
g) A small pinch of salt
h) 1 Tablespoon Hua diao wine

Directions:
1) Soak the shark bones in water for 8 hours, drain and remove excess water.
2) Parboil lean meat and chicken feet with boiling water, drain and remove excess water.
3) Add all the ingredients into the boiling water, continue boiling the soup for 2-3hours using small fire.
4) Add all the seasonings and stir the soup. Serve.

* I did not use chicken feet as neither my husband nor me likes them.

I got this recipe from 'U' magazine which was provided by a famous chef. 

Food ratings (10 being the best):
My husband's rating -3/10
My rating - 2/10

I found the soup tasteless and is just like plain water. If not for its high nutritional value (A health show once mentioned that shark bone can combat cancer. Not sure how true is that), I might have given it a lower rating than 2.

Cooking complexity (10 being hardest to cook):
My rating - 4/10 

I found it troublesome to parboil the meat separately even though it was necessary to remove the pork's odour. The need to soak the shark's bone also meant that I have to prepare 1 day in advance. Other than the mentioned 2 points, the rest is just chucking everything into the pot to boil.

I think I will try to cook this soup again with some variation of ingredients next time. Watch out for my post on it!