Cantonese people especially love making slow-simmered soups.
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culture
煲汤 (slow-simmered soup) is central to Cantonese cuisine. Families simmer soups for hours with medicinal herbs. The word 煲 itself comes from Cantonese dialect.
usage
Also used in 煲电话粥 (bāo diànhuà zhōu) — to chat on the phone for a long time, literally 'to simmer phone porridge.'
