Tong sui
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Tong sui (Chinese: 糖水; pinyin: táng shuǐ; literally "sugar water"), also known as tian tang (Chinese: 甜湯; pinyin: tián tāng; literally "sweet soup"), is a sweet Cantonese soup or warm custard served as a dessert at the end of a meal.
There is a wide variety of tong sui and in Hong Kong, there are often stalls which devote themselves just to selling different types of desserts. These dessert stalls have also gained prominence in overseas Chinese communities, and can be found in various parts of the United States.
[edit] Common varieties
- Black sesame soup (芝麻糊; pinyin: zhīmá hú)
- Douhua (豆花, pinyin: dòuhuā; also called 豆腐花, pinyin: dòufǔhuā)
- Mung bean soup (綠豆湯, pinyin: lǜdòu tāng; also called 綠豆沙, pinyin: lǜdòu shā; made from mung beans) (sometimes also served with seaweed)
- Guilinggao (龜苓膏; pinyin: guīlínggāo)
- Hasma (哈士蟆; snow frog jelly)
- Luk mei (六味, pinyin: liù wèi, literally "six ingredients"): A soup with six medicinal ingredients, including snow fungus, lotus seeds, dried longan, quail eggs, huai shan (wild yam), and fox nuts; daylily bulbs may also be used)
- Peanut paste soup
- Red bean soup (紅豆湯, pinyin: hóngdòu tāng; also called 紅豆沙, pinyin: hóngdòu shā)
- Steamed egg custard
- Steamed milk custard
- Sweet potato soup
Higher priced tong sui can be found using exotic ingredients such as bird's nest or hasma.
