When American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling arrived back from imprisonment in North Korea the other day, Al Gore mentioned that Ling's mother had been making her "special soup for two days now.”
Remembering what my Singaporean friend Jennifer has told me about grannies and aunties of Chinese descent brewing up congee for family members at the first signs of illness, I thought that might be what he meant. After all, congee requires immense amounts of simmering time for the rice to break down into that comforting sludge. However, the NY Times quotes Ling's mother Mary as calling it a "special herbal Chinese soup". Any thoughts?
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