Lala Soup with Ginger, Chinese Wine & Basil (with subtitles) Learn how to cook clam soup that is rich and sweet, with a hint of spice! This clam recipe only takes 15 minutes from start to finish, and is best eaten on a cold, rainy day. Ingredients ↓ It all starts with the clams. Today, I am using Lala (a type of soft shell clams) for my seafood soup. They are elongated with a crisscross pattern on their shells. They must first be washed individually to remove the empty shells from the batch. Usu