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What is Bird’s Nest.. Authentic bird’s nest soup is made using the nests of the swiftlet, a tiny bird found throughout southeast Asia. The swiftlet lives in dark caves, using a method of echolocation similar to the bat to get around. Instead of twigs and straw, the swiftlet makes its nest from strands of its […]

Bird Nest’s Heaven Bird’s Nest is rare and so expensive that only wealthy people can consume it. Many people know that it’s a “cold food” because it has a cooling effect when you consume it. In Chinese they called it “Yin”. Bird’s nest is produced by swiftlets. These birds are from the same family as […]

Consumption of yen-ou (swallow bird’s nest) routinely will balance yin and yang in our body thereby will give efficacious-benefit for the following matter : 1. Delaying sign of aging. 2. Taking care of beauty, especially to make face skin more shining. 3. Very good nutrition for the skin, lung and also process of bone forming. […]

Scientific Research about Swallow Bird Nest Even a scientific research about yen-ou had not been done comprehensively but surely the bioactive compound is available inside which have a role to give a refresher effect. That compound give refresher effect. Mystery of this bioactive compound, just opened with technology identify modernly, like HPLC ( High Performance […]

Bird’s Nest & Gingkoes Syrup Ingredients : 113 g soaked superior bird’s nest 75 g gingkoes 2 red dates 94 g rock sugar 4 cups water Method : 1. Remove shells from gingkoes. Soak in boiling water for s while. Remove membrane and stalks. Wash red dates and remove pits. Then put red dates and […]

Bird’s Nest Soup Ingredients : 15 g Superior bird’s nest 2 dried black mushrooms suitable amount of egg yolk shreds suitable amount of ham shreds 3 cup stock Method : 1. Wash bird’s nest. Soak until tender. Tear and wash. Drain. Put into a large bowl. 2. Soak mushrooms until tender. Wash. Cut into shreds. […]

Swallow Nests with Young Pigeon Soup Ingredients : 2 soaked whole swallow nest (approx. 2.66 oz) (as has been prepared in “Basic Preparation”) 1 Young pigeon 2 oz. lotus seeds 4 oz. lean pork 1/4 dried tangerine peel 8 cups of boiling water salt to taste Method : 1. Soak dried tangerine peel and remove […]

Chicken and Swallow Nests Steam Rice (Salty) Ingredients : 1 soaked whole bird’s nest (approx. 1.33 oz) 8 oz. chicken leg meat 2 dried black mushroom 4 red dates 1 cup of chicken stock 1 1/2 cups of water 2 cups of rice shredded spring onion soy sauce Marinade : 1/2 tsp salt 2 tsp […]

Bird’s Nest Pumpkin Soup Ingredients : Swallow’s Nest Fragment 1/2 tbsp Papaya 1 pc (200g) honey 1/2 tbsp water some Method : 1) Soak swallow’s nest and remove tiny features, add water then stew for 2 hours 2) Wash papaya and cut 1/4 of upper part away, serve as a lid 3) Remove all seeds […]

pubmedcentral.nih.gov P L Lee, D H Clayton, R Griffiths, and R D Page Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Abstract Swiftlets are small insectivorous birds, many of which nest in caves and are known to echolocate. Due to a lack of distinguishing morphological characters, the taxonomy of swiftlets is primarily based on the […]