Corn Soup (Indian Style) - Vegetarian

I've been singing "rain, rain go away, overgrown Nava want to play". But you know how stubborn things and people are? Even rain. When you least expect, when you have washed a big bundle of clothes and when you have spring-washed your car, the rain must come pouring down. Otherwise, how can our life be colorful? We sure need the colors? So with the rain, I'm bringing you a non-boring soup. Said before, I can't though remember how many times I have repeated like a parrot that rainy day is a soupy day. This vegetarian Indian style soup (Pumpkin Soup). Corn, white tofu, spices, butter, spring onion and coriander leaves. Feel free to slurp in everyone. Bye for now.

Ingredients
2 (abt 400g) whole corn - break into 3 or 4 portions/pieces
1 (abt 80g) tomato - chopped
1 piece white hard tofu - cut into cubes
2 green chillies - remove seeds and chopped
5 shallots - sliced thinly
Spices - 2 sticks of cinnamon, 2 star anise and  4 cloves
15g or 1 tbsp butter
Spring onion and coriander leaves (as needed) - shredded
1/2 liter of water
Salt and pepper for taste

Method:
Simmer corn with 3 cups of water.
Cook corn until soft, remove and let it cool down.
Reserve the corn stock and carefully slice/cut corn kernel off the cob.
Heat butter and when heated, saute shallots.
Add spices, green chillies and tomato.
Stir for about 2-3 minutes.
Pour in corn stock and add tofu.
Season with salt and pepper.
When soup is heated through, add corn kernels, spring onion and coriander leaves.
Stir and remove from heat.