Hot and Sour Soup

Ingredients :
2 ½  quarts chicken stock

1 block (16 oz.) of tofu, cut into 1 ½  inch long strips

5 shitake mushrooms, cut into thin slices

½ cup soy sauce

½ tsp. white pepper

½ cup white vinegar

1 ½ cups bamboo shoot strips

2 tb cornstarch dissolved in

4 tb water

3 eggs. beaten

½ tsp. sesame oil 

Direction :

Combine first seven ingredients in a pot and bring to a boil. 

Drizzle the cornstarch mixture into the soup, stirring to thicken.  Then drizzle beaten eggs into soup, stirring.  Top with sesame oil.