If you cook chicken in water, do you get chicken soup?
Not really, you get at most something like chicken juice.
The food culture evolved along the time, and typical regional meals arrived in new places, due to transportation and sharing information improvements.
And so it's easy to see new spices included in traditional recipes, transforming them into new dishes. The same happened with vegetables and mushrooms.
The result is thousands of chicken soup recipes.
Most of them emphasize a unique combination of vegetables and spices. Most of them promise almost heaven with colors, flavors and presentation.
The last thing you notice there is the chicken. This became legit.
I prepare a simple chicken based soup with an ultimate secret.
Besides all common ingredients, I add during the cooking process, a small veil or cow bone.聽
That's all it takes to a beautiful "chicken" soup.
(My photos with my old and good iPhone4)