In Chinese and Taiwanese cooking, beans are more often than not the star of sweets and desserts. This is a recipe for a favorite dessert that my mom always made us. Called 紅豆湯小圓子 or hong dou tang (red bean soup) xiao yuan zi (little chewy rice balls), it involves cooking adzuki beans until they fall apart to make a lovely soup, then adding sugar and glutinous rice balls to make a simple but delicious dessert. If you imagine red bean mochi in soup form, this is it!

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