sentences:  Creole oxtail soup is made from a tomato base with oxtails, potatoes, green beans, corn, mirepoix, garlic, and herbs and spices.Though translated literally as "oxtail soup" (牛尾汤 "Niúwěi tāng"), this version of the dish is somewhere between a soup and a stew.One of the defining characteristics of oxtail soup is that it contains a large mass of solid ingredients, rather than ingredients that have been diced or shredded as is the norm with Chinese soup.