Cooking: Milk Bird's Nest

First time making bird’s nest. Logging it here:

1. Prepping bird’s nest is a pain. First you soak it in purified water, four to five hours or so.
2. After soaking, you have to pull the feathers out of it with a toothpick… huge pain.
3. Then fish it out, add purified water, and steam it in a pot over water. This takes a while — usually 20 minutes.
4. At the 20-minute mark, add milk and rock sugar, keep cooking, and it’s done in about 10 more minutes.

You can also throw in a bit of white fungus, lotus seeds, whatever. Best to add those after the 20-minute mark.