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Pearl barley, H2O chestnut together with fu chook (beancurd stick) dessert soup 薏米馬蹄腐竹糖水

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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 H2O (or to a greater extent than appropriately equally sugariness dessert soup) =  糖水 tang sui (Mandarin) or tong sui (Cantonese)

Sweet soup or tong sui is Cantonese speciality eaten equally dessert.  Tong sui is equally mutual equally savoury soup for Cantonese. Soups play a rattling of import business office of Cantonese diet. There are hundreds of dissimilar tong sui recipes, this featured recipe is i of the rattling mutual familiar to most Cantonese together with by together with large available equally dwelling cooking non mutual inwards restaurants. Just few ingredients boil amongst plenty of H2O together with flavoured amongst sugar. Simple together with tasty, warm or cold.

Normal ingredients are pearl barley, H2O chestnut, beancurd stick or sheet, together with gingko nuts if available. It's non slow to notice gingko nuts over hither then I ever exit them out.

Gingko nuts = 白果 (bai guo inwards Mandarin, bak goa inwards Cantonese) or 銀杏果 (yin xing guo inwards Mandarin, non a mutual term for Cantonese)

Proportion of ingredients:
Pearl barley*: 1 cup
Fresh H2O chestnuts: 1.5 cup, inwards pocket-size pieces
dried fu chook: 1 - 1.5 loving cup interruption into smaller pieces
gingko nuts if using: 1/2 cup
water: most 10 cups
sugar: role normal granular saccharide or Chinese stone sugar, add together plenty to ain personal taste

I unremarkably used tiny pearl barley bought from the Chinese supermarket, you lot tin also role English linguistic communication barley available from whatsoever supermarkets.

To laid upwards the ingredients.
  • Soak pearl barley for thirty minutes or 1 lx minutes till softened. Soaking volition shorten cooking time. If non merely rinse together with boil.
  • water chestnuts, role fresh rather than tinned/canned. Fresh H2O chestnuts convey to a greater extent than flavour. Peel them, rinse together with trounce amongst the dorsum of a cleaver to pocket-size pieces or cutting into slices or pocket-size cubes. 
  • For the fu chook role normal stick type or apartment canvas called 三邊腐竹 san ben fu chook. If using the apartment canvas type brand certain it is brittle/crunchy when dried, the flexi type is fu pei 腐皮 for wrapping similar bound coil canvas non for boiling. Break the fu chook into pocket-size pieces. Soak if you lot preferred I never bothered. 
  • If using gingko nuts, take shell similar whatsoever nuts, peel off inner pare (browny colour) together with take inner essence stalk that looks green. This inner essence stalk is rattling bitter. You tin also purchase de-shelled together with peeled gingko nuts inwards vacuum pack, create banking enterprise stand upwards for the inner stems are removed too. 
Put all ingredients (except sugar) together with mutual frigidness tap H2O inwards a large stock pot or line per unit of measurement area cooker. Boil/simmer till pearl barley together with fu chook are soften for most two hours on the stove or  about 1 lx minutes amongst line per unit of measurement area cooker. Sweeten amongst sugar. Serve hot, warm or mutual frigidness later on chilling inwards fridge.

This dessert soup is rattling soothing, swell for anyday. We beloved it when the atmospheric condition is warm. The pearl barley together with fu chook are rattling soft, sideslip downwards rattling nicely together with the nuggets of H2O chestnut stay crunchy later on boiling.


There is also a savoury version of this soup. Add a spell of pork and/or several pieces pork os to the ingredients. Boil till tender. Remove pork when cooked, sliced together with dip amongst soy sauce or chilli sauce. Season soup amongst common salt  instead of sugar.