spare ribs soup with baby chye sim

Ingredients (serves 1-2)
spare ribs half a packet
one sweet corn
one carrot
some anchovies
one small tomatoes

Dipping sauce (for meat)
one small red onions
one or two red chili padi's
one small lime

Steps

1. Wash ribs with salt and rinse off
2. Season some salt and add some pepper onto ribs and let it sit for a while
3. Wash and break the corn into two
4. Wash and cut the carrots into chunks
5. Wash anchovies 
6. Put ribs, corn, carrots and anchovies into the pot
7. Add one and a half bowl of water into the pot
8. Cook for one hour
9. Wash and cut tomatoes into quarters and add into soup
10. Cook for another half hour
11. When it is almost ready to serve, add in the vegetables

For dipping sauce
1. Wash and chop red onions into small pieces
2. Wash and slice chili padi's
3. Squeeze the lime onto a bowl of chopped onions and chili
4. Add dark soy sauce onto the concoction

spare ribs soup with baby chye sim

closer view

On hindsight, it'll be better to trim off the fats from the meat before cooking. The soup ended up abit oily because I didn't trim enough of the fats... Hahah!