Sweet potato soup
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Chinese: | 番薯糖水 | ||||||||||
Literal meaning: | sweet potato sweet water | ||||||||||
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Sweet potato soup is a Chinese dessert found in Southern China and Hong Kong.
[edit] Cantonese cuisine
In Cantonese cuisine it is categorized as a tong sui or sweet soup, hence the Chinese name. The soup is usually thin, but potent in taste. The recipe is simple, consisting of boiling the sweet potato for a long time with rock candy. Sweet potato is one of the most commonly found and abundant vegetable grown in China[1]. With its simple recipe and large crop supply, sweet potato soup is one of the most accessible and affordable tong sui in the region.