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Pearl barley, water chestnut and fu chook (beancurd stick) dessert soup 薏米馬蹄腐竹糖水

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 water (or more appropriately as sweet dessert soup) =  糖水 tang sui (Mandarin) or tong sui (Cantonese) Sweet soup or tong sui is Cantonese speciality eaten as dessert.  Tong sui is as common as savoury soup for