Sweet potato soup

Sweet potato soup is a Chinese dessert from Southern China, and is especially popular in its Cantonese region.^[1]

Sweet potato soup

Type	Tong sui
Place of origin	China
Main ingredients	Sweet potatoes, brown sugar, ginger
Media: Sweet potato soup

Sweet potato soup
Chinese	番薯糖水
Literal meaning	sweet potato sweet water
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin fan1 shu3 tang2 shui3 Yue: Cantonese Jyutping faan1 syu4*2 tong4 seoi2

Cantonese cuisine

In Cantonese cuisine, it is categorized as a tong sui or sweet soup, hence the Chinese name. The soup is usually thin in texture, but potent in taste. The recipe is simple, consisting of boiling the sweet potato for a long time with brown sugar and ginger. Sweet potato is one of the most commonly found and abundant vegetables grown in China.^[2] With its simple recipe and large crop supply, sweet potato soup is one of the most accessible and affordable tong sui in the region.

See also

• Egg tongsui
• Fried sweet potato
• List of Chinese soups
• List of sweet potato dishes
• List of soups
• Sweet potato pie
• Food portal