What exactly does sugar water mean in Hong Kong dramas? Sugar water?

Sugar water in Hong Kong dramas generally refers to sweet soup, a dessert with high water content. Generally speaking, it refers to solid desserts that can be made at home, excluding double-skin milk and custard.

For example, almond bean curd, red bean porridge, mung bean porridge and Laba porridge in the north belong to the category of sugar water. There are also lotus seeds, white fungus, purple potato syrup and so on.

Hong Kong people prefer to drink sweet soup to keep fit. In fact, the authentic name in Hong Kong should be "sugar water" and "sweet soup" is a translation of Mandarin. If "sugar water" is understood as boiled water with white sugar, it is all wet. Here refers to all kinds of nourishing sweet soup.

As we all know, there are many ways for Hong Kong people to make soup. In terms of eating habits, Hong Kong has inherited the Guangdong people's practice of cooking different soups according to the seasons for nourishing and preserving health. And this healthy and nourishing concept also applies to desserts. For example, in summer, desserts such as green bean paste and Ma Tilu will be made to cool off the heat; In autumn, we will stew some sweet soups that moisten and nourish the lungs, such as lily syrup and apricot syrup. In winter, there are black glutinous rice, red bean paste and other soups that enrich blood and replenish qi.

Hong Kong's desserts can also see the influence of the western wind on Hong Kong. For example, the famous Hong Kong drink "Yuanyang milk tea" is a typical representative of the combination of Chinese and Western.

Hong Kong people's desserts, in addition to all kinds of sweets and snacks, can also be said to be synonymous with "sugar water" that Hong Kong people love to drink. This seemingly simple sugar water actually hides a lot of knowledge. Most people in Hong Kong need to stew their sugar water for a long time. Cooking desserts seems simple, but it also requires a lot of skills. Mastering the temperature and time is an important key. Therefore, Hong Kong people's "sugar water" is not only nourishing but not dry, but also nourishing and beautifying, tonifying the middle energizer and benefiting qi, which is the way for Guangdong people to maintain health through long-term experience.

Because Hong Kong people emphasize health preservation, even sugar should choose "yellow rock sugar" with high nutritional value. This kind of rock candy is sweet, delicate and not greasy. Because it is re-extracted from sucrose, its purity is higher than that of ordinary white sugar. However, yellow rock sugar has not been refined, so it retains natural nutrients and has the effects of nourishing the middle warmer, nourishing the stomach and moistening the lungs. Hong Kong people who pay attention to health mostly use yellow rock sugar instead of white sugar.

Hong Kong is located in a hot and humid climate, and people in Hong Kong who pay attention to health are used to drinking herbal tea to clear away heat and damp. Some traditional Hong Kong-style herbal tea shops will have many herbal teas for clearing away heat and reducing fire, such as twenty-four flavors, Sydney tea, five scented teas, etc., among which the famous Guiling cream is the most famous. Another dessert shop in Hong Kong mainly deals in health-preserving desserts, serving health-preserving sweet soup such as walnut sauce, red bean paste, stewed China wood frog, stewed papaya and stewed milk.

For the tradition of Hong Kong people, there is a difference between herbal tea and sugar water. The function of herbal tea is mostly to cool down the fire, so Hong Kong people like to drink herbal tea in summer. In winter, moist sugar water has become the favorite of Hong Kong people, and all kinds of nourishing sugar water sell best in winter.

Although desserts in Hong Kong have health-preserving functions, Hong Kong people also pay great attention to time when drinking sugar water. Generally speaking, Hong Kong people don't drink sugar water in the morning, because according to the traditional concept of China people, drinking sugar water in the morning is likely to cause "wind", that is, it will harm the body and make the body uncomfortable, so many sugar water operators choose to open stores in the afternoon.