Cantonese seafood soup

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Cantonese seafood soup

Type	Soup
Place of origin	China
Region or state	Guangdong
Main ingredients	seafood

Description

The soup is generally thick with a very smooth texture, due to the use of starch as a thickening agent. It is usually whitish and a little transparent. The name of the dish describes it as a "gung" (羹) rather than the standard Chinese term for soup (tang, 汤); this reflects its southern Chinese origin.

Variety

Plain Cantonese seafood soup (海皇羹)
Hundred flower Cantonese seafood soup (百花 . 海皇羹)
Bamboo fungus Cantonese seafood soup (竹笙. 海皇羹)
Crab meat Cantonese seafood soup (蟹肉 . 海皇羹)

v t e Cantonese cuisine
Main dishes	Bao yu Bird's nest soup Buddha's delight Cantonese seafood soup Chinese steamed eggs Congee Crispy fried chicken Dragon tiger phoenix Egg foo young Eight treasure duck Hot pot Lemon chicken Pork knuckles and ginger stew Seafood birdsnest Shark fin soup Snake bite chicken Soy sauce chicken Steam minced pork Subgum Suckling pig Sweet and sour pork White boiled shrimp White cut chicken Wonton noodles Yangzhou fried rice
Dim sum and yum cha	Almond tofu Beef tripe Cha siu bao Chicken feet Coconut bar Har gow Jian dui Jiaozi Lo mai gai Nian gao Ox-tongue pastry Rice noodle roll Shumai Spring roll Steamed meatball Swiss wing Taro cake Taro dumpling Tendon Tofu skin roll Turnip cake Water chestnut cake Yau gok Youtiao Zhaliang
Siu laap	Char siu Chinese sausage Lou mei Orange cuttlefish Roast goose Siu mei Siu yuk White cut chicken
Desserts and pastry	Almond biscuit Biscuit roll Deuk Deuk Tong Douhua Ginger milk curd Lo mai chi Malay sponge cake Mooncake Red bean cake Red bean soup Sausage bun Snow skin mooncake Tang bu shuai Tong sui White sugar sponge cake
Condiments and spices	Fermented bean curd Five-spice powder XO sauce
Ingredients	Beef ball Black bean paste Chenpi Conpoy Fermented black beans Fish ball Fishcake Frog legs Garland chrysanthemum Kai-lan Mantis shrimp Ong choy Pig blood curd Pig's ear Rapeseed Saang mein Sea cucumbers Shahe fen Shrimp roe noodles Spare ribs Suan cai Tofu skin Wonton Yi mein Youmian Zha cai
Others	Chinese herb tea Dried shredded squid Lou fo tong
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Cantonese seafood soup

Description

Variety

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