Sweets can be roughly divided into sweets and Cantonese sweets. Due to different regions, Guangfo people also call it "Tianshui", outsiders call it "dessert", and Chaozhou people call it "sweet soup". Sugar water for Guangfu people generally refers to mung bean paste, red bean paste, sweet potato sugar water, ginkgo tofu, egg lotus seeds, sesame paste, walnut paste, etc.; candy for foreigners refers to five-fruit soup, eight-treasure rice, almond tea, pot cake, tofu jelly, etc. The sweet soups of Chaozhou people refer to taro soup, pumpkin and taro puree, glutinous rice porridge, sweet potatoes, mung bean juice, bean sprouts, Qingxin pills, roasted ginkgo, red bean soup, mung bean soup, duck eggs, etc. .

Compared with Cantonese desserts, Chaozhou style has a stronger taste and heavier sweetness, while Cantonese style has a lighter taste and lighter sweetness, and pays attention to the therapeutic effect. In addition, Cantonese people eat sugar water to achieve moisturizing and warming effects, while Chaozhou people mostly use sweet soup as an after-dinner dessert, just for the pleasure of the mouth. Take mung bean desserts as an example. In Chaozhou’s mung bean soup, you only need to boil the mung beans until they bloom, and then add sugar to eat them. However, Cantonese people pay attention to boiling the mung beans until they become sandy, and also add tangerine peel, kelp or vanilla. The auxiliary ingredients are used to neutralize the coolness of mung beans, and they can also clear away heat and relieve heat after eating.

Among the Chaozhou sweet soups, some are available year-round, and some are seasonal. Mung Bean Shuang is available all year round. It is a method of soaking mung beans, adding sugar and cooking them into porridge, and then adding some powder. A sweet soup of water, sweet potatoes are also a popular dessert year-round. There is a dessert called Qingxin Wan in Chaozhou. First, cook Job's tears, persimmon slices, cold noodles, fungus, melon and winter melon strips, yam, lily and Cixi, soak them in cold boiling water, take an appropriate amount of each, and roll them up with sugar soup. It tastes sweet and refreshing. Qingxin Pills have the effects of clearing heat and moisturizing the intestines, diuresis, clearing the heart and lungs, and are often sold in summer.

The tofu flowers and trees in Chaoshan are also very special. In the summer afternoons of my childhood, whenever I woke up from a nap, my ears were always filled with the sound of Abel’s car bell jingling downstairs, and his thick call of “Bean Blossom, Grass…” lingering in my memory. , every afternoon, Abel would ride his bicycle around my house on time. In the back seat, he was carrying two large clay pots, one with bean curd and the other with tofu. When I'm greedy, I'll catch him on the windowsill first, then rush downstairs to buy a thunder bowl. By then, I was out of breath, but I was secretly glad I didn't miss it. I begged Aboduo to dig some for me and carried the tofu upstairs.