The Special Herbal Chicken Soup ($6.80) is one of my go-tos when I’m looking for a light or soupy meal and is especially ideal pre-workout.

The herbal taste isn’t too strong that it overwhelms your tastebuds, instead, it’s a pleasant taste that creeps up on you and brings a slow smile to your face while warming your body and internal organs up from the inside. The soup also has a slightly sweet aftertaste from dates and the goji berries that provide little flavour bombs in between mouthfuls of nourishing soup. You can see the red dates, wolfberries, and other assorted herbs stewed inside the soup. The herbs are stewed for so long that they are super soft and have also lost any residual bitterness. I even chew on the herb roots sometimes just for a change in texture.

Although the quality does tend to be inconsistent from day to day with the intensity of the soup flavour, as well as the tenderness of the chicken, it’s delicious and tender more often than not. Guess it really depends on your luck for the day on who’s cooking the soups and how long the chicken has been stewing for before you’re served.