Seasonal tonic in a Shanghai way

Updated: 2012-02-16 15:52

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<4> Sweet Potatoes Cooked with American Ginseng & Medlars

It will be a pleasant and satisfactory epilogue to savor a nourishing dessert and top off the Shanghainese gastronomic experience. This sweet delight especially recommended to the guests contains American ginseng that is helpful to reinforce "Qi" and replenish the "Yin" element while clearing up the heat and maintaining the internal balance. In addition, medlars do good to improve eyesight as well as to strengthen the liver and kidney. Complemented with tender sweet potatoes, it becomes the sweetest delight that warms your heart.

Seasonal tonic in a Shanghai way

Ingredients: 

A smidgen of American ginseng 

A smidgen of medlars 

100 grams of sweet potatoes 

A bowl of water 

25 grams of sugar candy

Effect: 

Reinforce Qi and replenish the Yin element 

Clear up the heat and boost the internal balance 

Improve the eyesight 

Strengthen the liver and kidney