Recipe time again

For dinner tonight I made a soup. I suppose you could call it a kind of pho maybe? It was a mushroom/veggie broth with rice stick noodles, egg, and napa. For someone like me, whose tastes tend to run toward the mildly spiced, it was quite yummy. It may look similar to the tricked-out ramen I posted earlier, but it tasted completely different. The ingredients:

a handful of dried oyster mushrooms
two shallots
two small cloves of garlic
1/2 cube of vegetable broth
handful of maifun rice sticks
1 egg
couple handfuls of coarsely chopped napa
tamari
sesame oil
salt/pepper/ginger

I soaked the mushrooms and shallots in ~two cups of water over low heat, for maybe 20 minutes. I then removed the mushrooms and shallots and added the broth cube and the finely chopped garlic, a splash of tamari, a splash of sesame oil, a wee bit of salt and some pepper. I also added a sprinkle of powdered ginger (in a fit of laziness; I had some fresh ginger and it would have been super included in with the initial step). I turned up the heat to medium and added the rice sticks. Once they looked to be nearly done, I scrambled the egg (vegans: cubed tofu can be deliciously used in place of the egg, I only used egg b/c we were out of tofu) and drizzled it into the simmering broth. I then dumped in the napa and let it all simmer for just a few minutes. That's it! Easy, not bad for you, delicious.