Fresh herbs are not widely available in China. There is a very successful farm between Suzhou and Shanghai that produces some basil, thyme, and sage, but it's intermittently available at best and usually reserved for people like Sean Jorgensen and Jean-Georges Vongerichten. Buttheads.
So imagine my delight at finding the odd "egg and mint soup" on the menu at a kick-ass local bistro, Heavenly Manna. That's right: fresh, crisp mint leaves grow with such abundance here that they hardly know what to do with them. So they throw them in soup, on top of chicken and practically line thier birdcages with it.
The soup was terrible.
And yeah, pretty much all of my posts will have puns in them.
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