Sweet potato soup

Sweet potato soup

Sweet potato soup is a Chinese dessert found in Southern China and Hong Kong.

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 [ [http://www.cgiar.org/impact/research/sweetpotato.html cgiar.org] ] . With its simple recipe and large crop supply, sweet potato soup is one of the most accessible and affordable tong sui in the region.

References

ee also

* Egg tongsui


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