HK39 - Chinese dessert 糖水

So-Han and Ran Hur get Chinese sweet soup!
Chinese cuisine in general isn't big on dessert, but the Cantonese do have a tradition of 糖水 tong sui "sugar water" which is a sweet soup or custard, usually served warm, that generally follows a full meal. This place, located on Percival st. in Causeway Bay, specializes in 糖水 and is always a-bumpin'. We couldn't find a seat and had to get ours to go. The menu is pretty extensive and features cold turtle-shell jelly, red adzuki bean soup, green mung bean soup with seaweed (yes it's sweet), various steamed custards, ginger-juice milk pudding, walnut paste, sesame paste, and cashew paste with sweet steamed milk, various herbal soups with lotus seeds and Chinese dates, "ja ja" which has barley and a bunch of other stuff, a sweet soybean custard known as "tofu flowers" 豆腐花, sweet potato soup with rice balls (mochi), coconut milk soup with taro and sago (tapioca), cold soup with papaya and ginko nuts, and a variety of others. We got hot black sesame soup with mochi, and my own personal favorite, mango-pomelo soup with sago (pomelo is a giant Chinese grapefruit).
I wish I knew what this place was called but they don't have their name in English and I can't figure out how to pronounce the characters. Sorry team, that one's on coach So-Han.

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[whoami9966]

just having some now from local wing hong, very tasty stuff

[kikaching888]

omg the black sesame soup looks like it's to die for...

[zoechung415]

芒果西米lo :)

[ca1cifer]

God, I miss good food.

[BluefruitNMusicSnow]

Foreign cuisine is so interesting... Thanks for sharing

[GameShaft]

wtf she korean lol

[xxNELLABOYZxx]

should've got taro soup..that stuff is so good.

[laserbyte]

haha this makes me so hungry

[POONyukfai]

lol