Another good idea. The soup ingredients are laid out in bowls on the table. You point to whatever you want in your soup and the ladies put it in a basket at the end of a long wooden stick with your number on it. They lower it into the boiling water to simmer with everyone elses and in a few minutes your own personal hot fresh soup with a couple ladles of community broth is ready! Yum. The key ingredient in Asian street stall cooking is freshness.