How to say “Imitation shark fin soup” in Cantonese

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wun2 zai2 ci3 · Imitation shark fin soup

A thick street-food soup with mushroom, meat shreds and vermicelli made to look like shark fin. It contains no shark fin.

The colour of each syllable is its tone — Cantonese has six, and the same sound in another tone is another word.

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