Lamb Pao-Mo Soup

According to legend, pao-mo soup came to be in the aftermath of a major battle during the Tang dynasty. One defeated general found himself AWOL, traveling around on foot and searching for home, subsisting only off his ration of dried bread. As luck would have it, he stumbled upon a butcher shop making broth with scraps of lamb. The starving general begged for a little bit of broth to boil his bread in, hoping to soften the hard-as-a-rock loaves. The resulting soup was so nutritious and fulf