Dietary Habits

Drinking Syrup

(gz.gov.cn)
Updated: 2010-11-08 21:19

Guangzhou people enjoy drinking syrups all year-round. Local folk believe that drinking syrups prepared with medicinal herbs, beans, fresh fruits and flour are beneficial to the health and relieve internal heat and increasing body fluid. There are a wide variety of syrups, some of which are prepared with red and green beans; some taking the form of sesame, almond or peanut paste; some are mixed with lily bulb or lotus seeds to produce tonic effects; some are stewed with egg, pawpaw, sweet potato, sesames, ginger and buffalo milk, or uncongealed tofu. The syrup can be boiled and drunk hot or cooled in a freezer as a cold drink.