bird's-nest soup

See also: bird's nest soup and birdsnest soup

English

Noun

bird's-nest soup (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of bird's nest soup.
    • 1837 November 22, “National Customs”, in Ward’s Miscellany: […], volume I, number 47, London: Thomas Ward and Co., […] Ainsworth and Sons, […], →OCLC, page 752, column 2:
      The dinner commenced with a large bowl of bird’s-nest soup, from which each person helped himself; it was very insipid until flavoured with soy—the necessary condiments of salt and pepper appearing to be wholly neglected in Chinese cookery.
      Republished from The East India and Colonial Magazine, where it is unhyphenated.
    • 2003 August 10, Georgia Tasker, “Borneo an unbelievable place to visit”, in The Santa Fe New Mexican, 154th year, number 222, Santa Fe, N.M., →ISSN, →OCLC, page G-3, column 5:
      Three kinds of swiftlets nest here, but only those in the highest reaches build their nests of pure saliva. These are the delicacies made by the Chinese into bird’s-nest soup.
    • 2008 January 23, Lynne Rossetto Kasper, “Flair, not flavor in bird’s-nest soup dish […]”, in The Herald-Sun, Durham N.C.: Durham Herald Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page C4, column 5:
      Bird’s-nest soup is what it sounds like, and is held as a great delicacy and status symbol in China. It’s believed the soup promotes health and retards aging.
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