How to say “Sesame balls” in Cantonese

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zin1 deoi1 · Sesame balls

Fried hollow balls of glutinous rice dough rolled in sesame seeds, often filled with sweet bean paste. Common at dim sum and New Year.

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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