Weekday Chinese Soup Adventures

Last weekend I stopped by an asian grocery store and explored their dried food aisle. I don't usually   spend much time there because I don't know what the ingredients are. I'm trying to duplicate the Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot, so I just grabbed the stuff I recognized.
red dried fruit (dates apparently)
little white seeds (lotus seed apparently)
little red dried things (wolfberry or medlar apparently)
dried shitake mushroom (I knew what this was-they look like mushrooms)

Anyways, so today was my first adventure into cooking asian soup (the real kind)

I tossed some of the above ingredients into a pot with water (some need presoaking, I used this as a guide) then added some chicken bouillon.
I also put some rice noodles and fish balls along with my root veggies (carrots, daikon)

Onward asian soup!