Tong sui

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Tong sui

Chinese: 糖水
Literal meaning: sugar water
Tian tang
Chinese: 甜湯
Literal meaning: sweet soup

Tong sui, also known as tian tang, is a sweet soup or warm custard served as a dessert at the end of a meal in Chinese cuisine. "Tong sui" are loan words taken from the Cantonese term that is applied to these dessert items. As such, the term is generally not used outside of the Cantonese communities.

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.

In Vietnamese cuisine, a similar dessert soup is called chè.

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English name Chinese name Description
Black sesame soup 芝麻糊
Douhua 豆花, 豆腐花 Tofu pudding
Egg tong sui 雞蛋糖水 popular in Hong Kong and southern China
Got fan 葛粉 kudzu soup
Guilinggao 龜苓膏 made from three-lined box turtle
Hasma 雪蛤 A dessert made of dried fallopian tubes of the frog with supposed health benefits.
Red bean soup 紅豆湯, 紅豆沙
Sai mai lo 西米露 A dessert soup of pearl tapioca, coconut and evaporated milk
Mung bean soup 綠豆湯, 綠豆沙 Made from mung beans, sometimes also served with seaweed
6 flavors 六味
Peanut paste soup 花生糊
Steamed egg custard 燉蛋
Steamed milk custard 燉奶
Sweet potato soup 番薯糖水
Sweet almond soup 杏仁糊
Sweet walnut soup

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