At the table
Drink the strained liquid warm or chilled. Let hot servings cool; leave fibrous cane and rhizome pieces behind.
The selected recipe uses only plant ingredients and water. Check additional herbs, sweeteners and packaged-product labels separately.
Recipes and bottled products differ. No added sugar does not mean sugar-free; sweetness also comes from the ingredients.
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- Specification
- Simmer washed cane and rhizome with peeled carrot, water chestnuts and water, then strain. This representative recipe adds no sugar. Recipes and bottled products differ. No added sugar does not mean sugar-free; sweetness also comes from the ingredients.
Ingredients
Sugarcane, cogon-grass rhizome, carrot, water chestnuts, water.
Origin & regional roots
Hong Kong
Associated with Hong Kong.
About this regional connection
Hong Kong: Official Hong Kong recipe and local home cooking.
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Story & history
Sugarcane and cogon-rhizome drink
This account describes a tradition or story, rather than an established historical fact.
In Cantonese home cooking, these ingredients are simmered together for a lightly sweet drink. It belongs to the tradition of prepared herbal drinks, not to ordinary tea-leaf tea.