Generally speaking, sweet soup is a dessert with high water content. Generally speaking, it refers to the 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 sweet potato syrup and so on.

China's desserts are among the best in the world for their variety and exquisite eating methods. Foreigners make sweets, mostly puddings, or cakes such as cream and eggs, but each place in China has different characteristics. Besides candy cakes, there are all kinds of sweet soup. Guangfu people call it "sugar water"; Outsiders collectively refer to it as "dessert"; Chaozhou calls it "sweet soup".