I prefer making my own Chinese soups, they are easy and fast... and I
think mine are better.... most of the odd ingredients are readily
available in cans/bottles, everything else at the produce department .
And I make a double quantity. enough for two days.
Most Chinese restaurant soups are awful... they come out of a #10 can,
heated and thickened. How do you think they can serve you in ten
minute, ten minute... no matter what you order it's always ten minute,
ten minute.. why do they always say ten minute twice, do they really
mean twenty minute and expect you to have a abacus?
However I'd much rather a store bought premium icecream. Most people
who attempt homemade waste good ingredients, typically too hard and
too sweet.