Hot & Sour Soup in the San Jose area?

[tshuma]

I've got the mother of all classic nasty colds, starting with the traditional sore throat with implications of more to come, followed by congestion, sinus headaches, coughing, etc. I desperately want a good hot & sour soup in the Chinese Restaurant sense, and I've never yet found a restaurant that could scratch that itch since I've moved to the Bay Area. (I don't go to many Chinese restaurants, and when I do, I've always been varyingly disappointed by the hot and sour soups.)

I WANTS it, I does. Thus, I appeal to friend internets. Where in the San Jose area (including Campbell and even Santa Clara....Sunnyvale if that's the only one you know) can I get a good hot and sour soup? One with a decent pinch of white pepper and a decent glug of vinegar?

I must summon hot and sour soup. I must.

Comments

[tsgeisel.livejournal.com]

I wish I could help, but I've always had better luck making it on my own, haphazardly. Boil water. Add cabbage. Add thickener (if you have it) for that greasy feel. Add random vegetables. Add vinegar, add pepper (red, white, black). Be gentle with the vinegar, but if you add too much, just add more stuff.

Just the act of making the soup has helped me in the past, much less eating it.

[tshuma]

That much energy I do not have, also none of the basic ingredients. I've made it before, and it was decent, but too sick to have the energy to do any of that.

[tsgeisel.livejournal.com]

Ah. Good luck on the illness thing, then.