Pearl barley, water chestnut and fu chook (beancurd stick) dessert soup 薏米馬蹄腐竹糖水

Pearl barley = 薏米 yee mee (Mandarin) or yee mai (Cantonese)
Water chestnut = 馬蹄 ma tee (Mandarin) or ma tai (Cantonese)
Beancurd stick = 腐竹 fu chook (Mandarin or Cantonese)
Sugar water (or more appropriately as sweet dessert soup) = 糖水 tang sui (Mandarin) or tong sui (Cantonese)

Sweet soup or tong sui is Cantonese speciality eaten as dessert. Tong sui is as common as savoury soup for

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Red bean soup with chan pei 陳皮紅豆沙糖水

Red bean or aduki bean is a common oriental ingredient making into thick bean paste filling for buns/cake and also made into sweet soups or tong sui 糖水

We Chinese love sweet soups for dessert, there are numerous varieties. Red bean soup with mandarin peel (chan pei) is a common Cantonese dessert.


It's easy to make just take a bit of time to cook.

Here is how I make mine.

1 cup of red beans (

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Tang yuan, fermented rice and egg drop sweet soup 酒釀蛋花湯圓

Tang Yuan 湯圓 are boiled soft chewy balls normally made with glutinous rice flour.

Today is the last day (day 15) of Chinese New Year called Yuan Xiao Festival 元宵節. It's also a full moon day today. CNY starts on the 1st day of lunar month and end on full moon. To end this festive season, many Chinese will eat soft chewy tang yuan. Most people will have the sweet type but savoury ones are also

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Soy milk 豆漿

It's dreadfully warm over here today. In this warm weather soy milk is a very good beverage. Soy beans are a ying or cool food. Drinking soy milk especially cold can sooth the throat and body in this warm heat.Chinese drink soya milk hot, warm and cold, sweetened, with salt or plain. Chinese soy milk is usually slightly thinner than some of the local western supermarket brands soy milk in a

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Best summer healing food mung beans - Mung bean sweet soup with kelp 海帶綠豆沙

Chinese believe heat in the body can cause all sorts of health problems. This heat is caused by very warm weather and/or eating too much heaty food like fried food, durian etc. This heat in the body called 熱氣 read as 're chi' translated as 'heat gas', can cause heat rash, sore throat, mouth ulcers, heat headaches etc.... To cure/relieve this heat in Chinese referred as '清熱解毒 chin re jae duk'

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Yeung Ji Gum Lo 楊枝甘露

Here is another request from a reader for a recipe.Yeung Ji Gum Lo 楊枝甘露 is a cold Chinese dessert created by some Hong Kong restaurant in the '80. It's quite a refreshing dessert soup which is creamy, sweet and fragrant from mango and pomelo. Very simple to make, all you need is gather the ingredients and mix everything together. The key ingredients are mango, pomelo, sago pearls, mango ice cream

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Bubur caca

Read as bu-bur-cha-cha, sounds a music rhythm doesn't it? It's a Malay style sweet pudding soup with sweet potatoes, yam and chewy gummies, all flavoured with coconut milk, pandan leaf and sugar. Very easy pudding probably not a Westerner idea of pudding but if you are from Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Indonesia or had sampled this sweet soup before you probably will crave for it every now and

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Last Day of CNY and Sticky Rice Ball Dumplings 湯圓慶元宵 - Part 2

Continued from the last post, here are more sticky rice ball dumplings recipes.This next one is deep fried by far my favourite, very popular in our house and similar texture and taste to Jin Dui balls 煎堆 you get from the Chinese dim sum restaurant.DEEP FRIED STICKY RICE BALLS (PUFF BALLS)For the ingredients/ methods:Before you make the fried puff balls, get some roasted peanuts (plain unsalted is

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Red bean Ice lollies

I made a batch of red bean paste yesterday. I cooked extra beans to make some lollies and red bean sweet drink.Red bean lolly is popular in the far east but never seen any in the west. I wonder why, it's tasty and full of goodness than artificial colouring and flavouring in most lollies these days.So how do you make it? Very very easy. Boil some aduki beans till really soft. Water to beans volume

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