Fishcake and Veggies Soup

This is sort of a processed food version that I made within half an hour or so. Which doesn't really include the time it takes to prepare the ingredients but still considerably pretty good considering you're really hungry.

Note: I usually purchase the Korean variety fishcakes, which comes with fishcakes of all different shapes and sizes and taste pretty decent. And also they usually include packets of seasonings in the batch so you don't really have to buy stocks.

Ingredients

3 cups of water
several mixed pieces of fishcakes
6 beef meatballs (OPTIONAL)
1 celery stalk, julienned
1 carrot, cut on an angle about 2cm thick
2 cabbage leaves, cut into large square pieces
a handful of green beans, cut into medium length
a dash of salt
a flick of pepper
a fling of sugar
vegetable stock powder (OPTIONAL)

Method

1. Boil a pot of water (not the 3 cups of water). Place beef meatballs and fishcakes into pot. Drain the ingredients as soon as they float to the surface and the water boiled once again.
Note: I usually boil the beef meatballs and fishcakes separately because the fishcakes tend to leave oil residue in the boiled water whereas the meatballs won't.

2. Boil 3 cups of water in (preferably another) pot. Place stock powder in the pot and stir to mix. Place the carrot in the pot. Wait for carrot to cook.
Note: To check whether the carrot is cook stab the carrot pieces with a fork. If the fork glides well into the carrot then they're cooked.

3. Place green beans in the pot. Wait for about 3 minutes before placing cabbages and celery in the pot. After all the vegetables are relatively cooked place meatballs and fishcakes in the pot. Wait for the soup to boil. Add a dash of sugar, salt and pepper to taste.
Note: Sugar helps to add a bit of sweetness into the soup because when I cooked it the salty taste of the stock overpowers the sweetness of the veggies so sugar was added as an additional taste enhancer.

4. Serve and eat. : )

To be honest I'm not quite sure whether the measurement is right or not. And I'm a very bad estimator as well. So apologies if there turned out to be excessive amount of water. I usually don't measure my ingredients when I cook so let your instinct take over. ;)