Chinese spinach soup, which used to be just a simple homely dish, started to make its way into the hawker centres about 2 years ago. My mom often made this when I was small as it was easy to make – just garlic & ikan bilis (dried anchovies) for the soup base, then chinese spinach. Ours was the vegetarian version.
Unbelievably the stalls can survive by just selling spinach soup. Guess most of us are now into healthier meals and that contributes to its popularity. But they do have a fancier menu by letting diners customise their orders – different choices of staples (rice / noodle / bee hoon etc) and meat, with/without egg ……
So I did a similar one for our dinner tonight.
Kelly’s chinese spinach soup 
Our staple is the 18-mixed grains 
Everything in a bowl including the 18 grains.
I must say the fried ikan bilis was the highlight
Carrots, shitake mushrooms, century eggs, salted eggs, minced pork (into meat balls), ikan bilis, chinese spinach.
Not in picture: lots of grated garlics & wolfberries
KellyL's world 