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Tong sui, also known as tian tang, is a collective term for any sweet, warm soup
Soup

Soup is a food that is made by combining ingredients such as meat and vegetables in Stock or hot/boiling water, until the flavor is extracted, forming a broth....
 or custard
Custard

Custard is a range of preparations based on milk and Egg s, thickened with heat. Most commonly, custard refers to a dessert or dessert sauce, but custard bases are also used for quiches and other savoury foods....
 served as a dessert at the end of a meal in Cantonese cuisine
Cantonese cuisine

Cantonese cuisine comes from Guangdong in Southern China, or specifically from Guangzhou . Of all the regional varieties of Chinese cuisine, Cantonese is the best known outside China; most "Chinese restaurants" in Western countries serve Cantonese cuisine and dishes based on it....
. Tong sui are a Cantonese specialty and are rarely found in other regional cuisines of China
Chinese cuisine

Chinese cuisine originated from the various regions of China and has become widespread in many other parts of the world ? from Asia to the Americas, Australia, Western Europe and Southern Africa....
. Outside of Cantonese-speaking communities, soupy desserts generally are not recognized as a distinct category, and the term tong sui is not used.

There is a wide variety of tong sui and in Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
, there are often stalls which devote themselves just to selling different types of desserts.






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Tong sui, also known as tian tang, is a collective term for any sweet, warm soup
Soup

Soup is a food that is made by combining ingredients such as meat and vegetables in Stock or hot/boiling water, until the flavor is extracted, forming a broth....
 or custard
Custard

Custard is a range of preparations based on milk and Egg s, thickened with heat. Most commonly, custard refers to a dessert or dessert sauce, but custard bases are also used for quiches and other savoury foods....
 served as a dessert at the end of a meal in Cantonese cuisine
Cantonese cuisine

Cantonese cuisine comes from Guangdong in Southern China, or specifically from Guangzhou . Of all the regional varieties of Chinese cuisine, Cantonese is the best known outside China; most "Chinese restaurants" in Western countries serve Cantonese cuisine and dishes based on it....
. Tong sui are a Cantonese specialty and are rarely found in other regional cuisines of China
Chinese cuisine

Chinese cuisine originated from the various regions of China and has become widespread in many other parts of the world ? from Asia to the Americas, Australia, Western Europe and Southern Africa....
. Outside of Cantonese-speaking communities, soupy desserts generally are not recognized as a distinct category, and the term tong sui is not used.

There is a wide variety of tong sui and in Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
, there are often stalls which devote themselves just to selling different types of desserts. These dessert stalls have also gained prominence in overseas Chinese
Overseas Chinese

Overseas Chinese are people of Chinese people birth or descent who live outside the territories administered by the rival governments of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China ....
 communities, and can be found in various parts of Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 and the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
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In Vietnamese cuisine
Cuisine of Vietnam

Vietnamese cuisine is known for its common use of fish sauce, soy sauce, rice, fresh herbs, fruits and vegetables. Vietnamese recipes use a diverse range of herbs, including Cymbopogon, mint, Vietnamese mint, Eryngium foetidum and Thai basil leaves....
, a similar dessert soup is called chè
Che

Che is a Spanish language diminutive interjection commonly used in Argentina. A form of colloquial slang used in a vocative sense as "friend", and thus loosely corresponds to expressions such as "mate", "pal", "man", "bro", or "dude"; as used by various English language speakers....
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Common varieties

English name Chinese name Description
Black sesame soup
Black sesame soup

Black sesame soup is a popular Chinese dessert that can be widely found throughout China and Hong Kong. It is generally served hot....
 		 ???
Douhua
Douhua

File:Dofuhua-lamma.jpgD?uhua or d?ufuhua is a Chinese cuisine made with an extra soft form of tofu. It is also referred to as tofu pudding....
 		 ??, ??? Tofu pudding
Egg tong sui
Egg tong sui

Egg tong sui is a classic tong sui within Cantonese cuisine, essentially a sweet version of egg drop soup. It is considered a more traditional and home-style dish in Hong Kong and China, since it is rarely if ever served at any restaurants....
 		 ???? popular in Hong Kong and southern China
Northern and southern China

Northern China and Southern China are two approximate regions within People's Republic of China. The exact boundary between these two regions has never been precisely defined....
Got fan
Got fan

Gotfan is a traditional pudding-like hot soup within Chinese cuisine. It is a considered a more traditional and home-style dish in Hong Kong and China, since it is never served at any restaurants....
 		 ?? kudzu
Kudzu

, Pueraria lobata , is one of about 20 species in the genus Pueraria in the pea family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. It is native to southern Japan and southeast China in eastern Asia....
 soup
Guilinggao
Guilinggao

Guil?nggao is a Chinese medicine that is made with the powdered shell from the critically Endangered species Cuora trifasciata and China roots ....
 		 ??? made from three-lined box turtle
Cuora trifasciata

Cuora trifasciata is a species of turtle Endemism to southern China, known in English as the Golden Coin Turtle or Three-striped/-banded/-lined Box Turtle....
Hasma
Hasma

Hasma is a Chinese cuisine dessert ingredient made from the dried fallopian tubes of the Asiatic Grass Frog . Hasma is often mistakenly described as toad or frog fat, since it is sometimes referred to as "toad oil" ....
 		 ?? A dessert made of dried fallopian tubes of the frog with supposed health benefits.
Red bean soup ???, ???  
Sai mai lo or Sago ??? A dessert soup of pearl tapioca, coconut and evaporated milk
Mung bean soup ???, ??? Made from mung bean
Mung bean

||-||}Mung bean, also known as green bean, mung, moong, mash bean, munggo or monggo, green gram, golden gram, and green soy, is the seed of Vigna radiata which is native to India and Pakistan....
s, sometimes also served with seaweed
Seaweed

Seaweed is a loose colloquial term encompassing macroscopic, multicellular, benthos ocean algae. The term includes some members of the rhodophyta, phycophyta and green algae....
6 flavors ??  
Peanut paste soup ???  
Steamed egg custard ??  
Steamed milk custard ??  
Sweet potato soup
Sweet potato soup

Sweet potato soup is a Chinese cuisine dessert found in Southern China and Hong Kong....
 		 ????  
Sweet almond soup ???  
Sweet walnut soup  


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See also

  • Cantonese desserts
    Cantonese cuisine

    Cantonese cuisine comes from Guangdong in Southern China, or specifically from Guangzhou . Of all the regional varieties of Chinese cuisine, Cantonese is the best known outside China; most "Chinese restaurants" in Western countries serve Cantonese cuisine and dishes based on it....
  • Sâm b? lu?ng
    Sâm b? lu?ng

    S?m b? lu?ng is a Vietnamese cuisine sweet, cold soup of Chinese cuisine origin, similar to a tong sui . Although the exact recipe may vary, s?m b? lu?ng generally contains Job's tears, dried longans, red jujubes, lotus seeds, and thinly sliced Seaweed#food, with water, sugar, and Ice cube....
  • Chè
    Che

    Che is a Spanish language diminutive interjection commonly used in Argentina. A form of colloquial slang used in a vocative sense as "friend", and thus loosely corresponds to expressions such as "mate", "pal", "man", "bro", or "dude"; as used by various English language speakers....
  • Tangyuan
    Tangyuan

    Tangyu?n is a Chinese cuisine made from glutinous rice flour. Glutinous rice flour is mixed with a small amount of water to form balls and is then cooked and served in boiling water....