How to say “Red bean soup” in Cantonese

hung4紅dau2豆saa1沙

hung4 dau2 saa1 · Red bean soup

Sweet red beans cooked down into a thick soup, sometimes with dried tangerine peel. Often served free at the end of a meal.

The colour of each syllable is its tone — Cantonese has six, and the same sound in another tone is another word.

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