Watercress Soup

I'm starting a compilation of recipes for Asian cooking using non-Asian specific ingredients, or ingredients readily available in this very challenging place - UK. I reckon, if you can cook with ingredients from the local UK supermarket without resorting to an Asian supermarket, it would suffice anywhere else in the world including the US and Australia, since those stock far more Asian supplies than a regular UK supermarket.

My standard of a regular UK supermarket is a Tesco Extra right next to my house, so it may stock more than most metropolitan supermarkets, but I try to use as common ingredients as possible.

Nobody's made "The Diaspora Cookbook" just as yet - so don't steal that idea, it'll be wonderful if someone can beat me to it and come up with one, I'd definitely buy it, but in the meantime, this will have to suffice.

Watercress Soup (西阳菜汤)

Ingredients:
200g (a bunch) salad watercress - pick the kind that doesn't just contain leaves and long and stringy if possible
500ml water
2 pieces pork ribs or 2-3 chicken wings
pinch of salt

Method:
In a pot or slow cooker, bring pork ribs and water to a boil. Season with salt. Add salad watercress after soup has come to a boil and simmer on medium heat for 30 minutes.

Serve with rice or on it's own.

Apparently, the Tesco's spaghetti overcooked by 5 minutes tastes nearly exactly like thick vermicelli (粗米粉). No guarantees with any other brand but the Tesco's one seems to work nicely.