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糖水 in words.hk is tong4 seoi2. It is a sweet after a Cantonese meal, usually a sweet soup, with many ingredients. The measure is 碗. The collocations are 食糖水, 煲糖水 and 糖水舖. 糖水舖 tong4 seoi2 pou2 is a shop that sells it, measure 間. The example is going there after work for 芝麻糊, and 糊 in that sentence is wu2.

芝麻糊 is also written 芝蔴糊, both zi1 maa4 wu2. It is cooked from black sesame, glutinous rice and sugar, and it comes out as a paste.

The 紅豆沙 entry is hung4 dau2 saa1. The ingredients named are red beans, sugar, 陳皮, lotus seeds and lily bulbs. 陳皮 has its own page, can4 pei4 and can4 pei2 side by side: tangerine or mandarin peel, sun-dried or oven-dried, then kept for many years, used as a Chinese medicinal. The measure is 塊. 紅豆 itself is hung4 dau2. to-jyutping reads 紅豆沙 as hung4 dau6 saa1, so 豆 moves from the entry’s dau2 to dau6. The player follows the converter. What is played here is 紅豆, the bean, rather than the name of the bowl.

The 紅豆沙 example asks why every banquet ends with red-bean soup, and whether some other tong sui is possible. The 綠豆沙 entry is luk6 dau2 saa1. The ingredients are mung beans, 臭草 and sugar. 臭草 has no page. One example says eating it can clear heat. The other says today’s tong sui is mung-bean and red-bean, and asks which one. 綠豆 itself is luk6 dau2.

綠豆公 is a separate entry: mung beans that do not turn soft no matter how long they are cooked, measure 粒, written luk6 dau6 gung1. The collocation on the 綠豆 page marks the same name luk6 dau2 gung1. One name, two tones for 豆. to-jyutping follows the dau6 of the 綠豆公 entry.

糖不甩 is tong4 bat1 lat1. Glutinous-rice flour is shaped like a tong yuan. There is no filling. It is eaten stuck to sugar, peanuts and sesame. The example calls it the speaker’s favourite dessert.

薑汁撞奶 goeng1 zap1 zong6 naai5 is a dessert made from ginger and milk, measure 碗. The English splits the name into “ginger juice bumps into milk.” 豆腐花 dau6 fu6 faa1 is soy milk set into a white, solid pudding. Sugar or tong sui is what makes it a dessert, and other toppings can be added. The measures are 碗 or 桶. The example asks for a hot bowl.

腐竹 shares an entry with 豆皮 and 腐皮. 腐竹 is fu6 zuk1, 豆皮 dau6 pei4, 腐皮 fu6 pei4. The method on the page: hot soy milk is poured onto an iron plate, left to cool, and the film on the surface is rolled up with a wooden stick and dried. The measure is 塊. 腐竹糖水 has no page. to-jyutping gives fu6 zuk1 tong4 seoi2.

合桃糊, 杏仁糊, 清補涼, 楊枝甘露, 西米露 and 雙皮奶 have no entries. to-jyutping gives hap6 tou4 wu4, hang6 jan4 wu2, cing1 bou2 loeng2, joeng4 zi1 gam1 lou6, sai1 mai5 lou6 and soeng1 pei4 naai5. The character 糊 has the candidates wu4 and wu2. The 芝麻糊 entry uses wu2. The converter’s 合桃糊 comes out wu4. The see-also list on 芝麻糊 includes 合桃露, 杏仁茶, 楊枝甘露 and 雙皮奶. Searched alone, all four return no page.

Sources

• LSHK Jyutping scheme
• CanCLID to-jyutping
• words.hk: 糖水, 糖水舖, 芝麻糊, 紅豆沙, 紅豆, 陳皮, 綠豆沙, 綠豆, 綠豆公, 糖不甩, 薑汁撞奶, 豆腐花, 腐竹