Inspired by the lovely Melanie's "Very Basic Soup Recipe", and a few miscellaneous eastern ingredients in my kitchen... turned out good enough to write down and make again:

Savoury Cabbage Soup
6 cups of water
2 tbsp of "Better than Bullion" chicken paste stuff
1 1/2 tsp dashi granules*
a gurgle/splash of rice vinegar*
1 tsp garlic-chili paste*†
a large squiggle of Siracha sauce*† (it comes in a squeeze bottle ;-)
~1 tsp dried fried garlic (or garlic powder)†
2 stalks of celery - sliced
~2 cups of thin-sliced cabbage
3 small green onions (white part chopped into cooking soup, green part sliced on top of finished soup)
1 egg
1 small can bamboo shoots, drained

Put it all in a pot (except the egg) and cook until the veggies are the texture you prefer.
Whisk egg (in a separate bowl) until yolk & whites are mixed.
Scoop veggies into a bowl.
Stir broth while slowly pouring in mixed egg.
After a minute or two (when egg is set) dump veggies back into pot.
Scoop into bowls and sprinkle with green onion tops.

*All this stuff can be found in pretty much any asian grocery (I found the 'fried garlic' flakes in an asian grocery too, but I'd never seen them before...)

†Add garlic and spicy stuff to taste, of course!

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