Back from Indy have to cook up all the weird food.

Seaweed Soup

8 cups of chicken or vegetable broth
A large handful of dried seaweed scissored into small pieces
1 clove of garlic minced
dash of ground ginger
1/2 cup sherry
1 8 oz can sliced water chestnuts and it's water
1 8 oz can sliced bamboo shoots and their water
1/2 tsp or more white pepper

Bring to a boil add

2 medium sized king oyster mushrooms sliced into thin rounds
8 oz raw shrimp

Bring back to a boil add

8 oz soy tofu noodles (fresh ones)
8 oz soy bean or mung bean sprouts

Bring back to a boil turn off heat stir in 1/4 cup of Bragg's liquid amino or light soy sauce. Adjust the level of white pepper until soup has a nice bit of heat. Serve with prawn crackers.