It's true, chicken soup really is good for colds and flus, but none of that Campbell's soup shit please! Ugh those flaccid noodles and the ridiculous sodium content alone could brine your digestive tract! Back to topic, Esther's Soup Kitchen is everything a good soup place should be in that they add no flour, cornstarch, oil or cream to their soups.
You can definitely taste that hearty simplicity. The chicken and rice soup ($5.99 for approx 400ml in a styrofoam take-out container) had a good amount of chicken breast meat with basmati rice and parsley and was not obscenely salty.
Here are the benefits of Esther's chicken and rice soup with respect to cold symptoms;
Nasal passages clearing- CHECK!
Temporary cessation of bile colored mucilage being coughed up - CHECK!
Return of some semblance of lingual flavour mechanisms - CHECK!
Seriously, homemade soup-making moms everywhere, be warned, Esther's may very well have the cold remedy chicken soup recipe cornered. Save yourself the grief and just don't tell mom about Esther's. Let's just keep this our little cold'n'flu season secret!