My father liked his beef and radish soup. Most probably because he lived in China (first in Shanghai and then Beijing for more than 8 years). As he was quite scholarly, my grandfather was only too happy to send him to college and then university in China, far away from Sibu. He probably left when he was lamost 18 or 19 as we never asked him about when he left for his studies.
Beef was readily available in Shanghai and Beijing before the Second World War. And now in the 21st century it is even more readily available. My father often talked about beef wrapped in pancakes and beef broth.
In our family we often had fresh beef broth with radish because he would come back happily with some fresh beef from the Malay butcher in the Central Market. Sibu in those days did not have beef in the market every day. So it was a big treat for us to have beef soup.
My mother liked to plant radish which we all liked. We could have stir fried radish, boiled radish or radish cooked with some chicken or pork. We also liked radish cooked with ikan bilis.
Beef broth or beef bone soup can be considered a delicacy for the Foochows.
Nowadays we have Korean and Japanese influence. We can easily use importted ingredients to cook our beef and radish soups.
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