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Soups for dry autumn days
When the air turns crisp and your lips crack, Cantonese kitchens reach for pears, apples, almonds and snow fungus.
Traditional home cooking, not medical advice. Check with your doctor, especially if you’re pregnant, nursing, or on medication.
The house rules
- Moistening is the goal: pears, apples, snow fungus and sweet almonds.
- Dry, tickly cough? Pear soups are the classic. A cough with chills and clear phlegm is a different story.
- Run cold? The neutral bowls are the gentle pick: look for the Neutral badge.
Lung-loving pots
Slow-simmered soups for dry days.
Apple and snow fungus soup
蘋果雪耳瘦肉湯
Traditionally believed to moisten the lungs and skin in dry autumn weather.
Cooling涼2 h 20 min
Asian pear and apricot kernel soup
南北杏雪梨瘦肉湯
Traditionally believed to moisten the lungs and soothe a dry, hot cough.
Cooling涼2 h 15 minNot for when you have…- A cough with chills
- A cold tummy or loose stools
Shashen and yuzhu pork soup
沙參玉竹豬骨湯
Traditionally believed to moisten dry lungs and a dry, tickly throat.
Cooling涼2 h 45 min
Watercress and pork bone soup
西洋菜豬骨湯
Traditionally believed to clear lung heat and ease a dry throat in autumn and winter.
Cooling涼2 h 50 min
Green and red radish soup with corn
青紅蘿蔔粟米豬骨湯
Traditionally believed to clear heat, help digestion and ease dryness.
Cooling涼2 h 45 min
Dried bok choy and pork bone soup
菜乾豬骨湯
Traditionally believed to clear heat and ease autumn dryness.
Cooling涼3 h
Sweet and silky
Dessert bowls count too.
Double-boiled Asian pear with fritillaria
川貝燉雪梨
The classic home remedy for a dry, hot cough with sticky phlegm.
Cooling涼1 h 45 minNot for when you have…- A cough with chills
- A cold tummy or loose stools
Papaya and snow fungus sweet soup
木瓜雪耳糖水
Traditionally believed to moisten the lungs and skin.
Neutral平1 h 5 min
Almond tea (apricot kernel soup)
杏仁茶
Traditionally believed to moisten the lungs and skin.
Neutral平35 min
Where this comes from
The traditional uses on this page, and where we read them.
- Hong Kong Department of Health, Chinese Medicine Regulatory Office, "中醫飲食養生 - 五穀與蔬果"
- Hong Kong Anti-Cancer Society, "中醫食療——食物種類分析" (Dr Lam To-yee, registered Chinese medicine practitioner, 2022)
- Me & Qi TCM herb database: chuan-bei-mu
Traditional home cooking, not medical advice. Check with your doctor, especially if you’re pregnant, nursing, or on medication.
