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Comforting Chinese Egg and Tomato Soup Recipe Revealed

4/6/2026

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Megan Zhang shares a recipe for Chinese Egg and Tomato Dough-Drop Soup inspired by her grandmother.
The dish combines savory-sweet tomatoes with fluffy eggs in a brothy base.
The dough requires 3/4 cup flour, a pinch of salt, and 1/3 cup water.
For the soup, the ingredients are neutral oil, scallions, tomatoes, salt, soy sauce, sugar, eggs, chicken broth, white pepper, and sesame oil, and the recipe serves 2–4.

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Story summary

Megan Zhang shares a recipe for Chinese Egg and Tomato Dough-Drop Soup inspired by her grandmother.
The dish combines savory-sweet tomatoes with fluffy eggs in a brothy base.
The dough requires 3/4 cup flour, a pinch of salt, and 1/3 cup water.
For the soup, the ingredients are neutral oil, scallions, tomatoes, salt, soy sauce, sugar, eggs, chicken broth, white pepper, and sesame oil, and the recipe serves 2–4.