Takeaway — peanut soup ($1.50) & 4 pcs in peanut soup ($2.10)!
Hawker takeaway dessert — peanut soup $1.50 + 4 pcs tang yuan in peanut soup $2.10. Old-school Cantonese sweet dessert run.
Friday afternoon takeaway with BB — quick dessert run to a hawker stall for the peanut soup and the upgraded 4 pcs tang yuan in peanut soup. The old-school Cantonese sweet dessert duo that’s slowly disappearing from the hawker scene.
We ordered:
- Peanut soup (plain) — $1.50
- 4 pcs tang yuan in peanut soup — $2.10
Total: $3.60 for both.
Peanut soup (花生糊 — hua sheng hu) is the classic Cantonese dessert — peanuts blended down into a thick, creamy, faintly nutty sweet paste, simmered with rock sugar until smooth. The good versions have that velvety texture from properly soaked and blended peanuts, the bad versions taste like watered-down peanut butter. This stall does the proper version.
Plain peanut soup at $1.50 is the entry-level — straight up, ladled into a takeaway cup, just hot enough to drink slow.
The 4 pcs tang yuan upgrade at $2.10 adds glutinous rice balls — soft, chewy, filled with sweet sesame paste that bursts out when you bite. The combination of warm peanut soup outside and warm sesame filling inside is one of those quiet dessert wins that needs no further explanation.
Both ladles came in styrofoam cups with lids, properly sealed for the takeaway walk home. The peanut soup stays hot for a good 30 minutes, plenty of time to get back and eat at the kitchen counter.
At $1.50 to $2.10 per cup this is the kind of old-school dessert pricing that hasn’t budged in years. Stalls like this are worth supporting actively — they don’t outlast the auntie or uncle running them.
Overall: 4.5 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Excellent peanut soup duo — locking in as a regular takeaway.
