Chinese Cookbook: Sweet Treats for beginners

Healthy Chinese sweet soup.

Some Chinese possess the habit of preceding a meal with a sweet soup or drink, while others want to serve sweet, between-meal snacks. Sweet soups and drinks usually include a marrow of some sort, watercress, lotus seeds, gingko nuts, dates and one of the milder Chinese herbs. It could seem just a little confusing, too, why a distinction should exist between a sweet soup and a sweet drink when they appear so similar. There is merely one explanation because of this ...