Showing posts with label sweet soup糖水. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sweet soup糖水. Show all posts

Monday, May 30, 2011

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

Happy Birthday Pam!

It was Pam birthday and her lovely husband set the cooking party with good friends  for her as she love cooking and Thai food. They are real...