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I’m forming a theory on culinary similarities between Southern China and the Southern US. I’ve covered the Chinese obsession with some of the pork products before, but tonight I made a very traditional Cantonese sweet-potato dessert soup. It contained sweet potatoes, jujube fruits, ginger and brown sugar.

It tasted like sweet potato pie.

Also, Cantonese-style mooncakes taste an awful lot like pecan pie. And why do we also make sweet-sauced roasted pork?

Some of the similarities are undoubtedly due to economy—mom’s parents are from some kind of Toi San hicksville—and climate. But still, it’s kind of weird. Maybe I need to eat more Southern food.