No rants this time just an easy and fast recipe for a soup-dessert.
It is common in Asian to have desserts like these.

Ingredients for 4-6 person

3-6 medium sized sweet potatoes (around 800-1200 grams)
(there are different kinds of sweet potatoes so choose the one you like, red with white on the inside and orangery with orange on the inside)
A chunk of ginger about 100 grams
200 grams of Rock sugar candy (crystal chunks of brown sugar)
200 grams of Brown sugar sticks.
1.5L of Water

*most of the ingredients can be bought at a Chinese supermarket.

Peel the potatoes and the ginger and cut them up in small chunks that are easy to cook. Get a large enough pan to make it in. Light up the stove and put the pan on it. Fill the pan with water and add the sugars to it. Dissolve the sugar and wait until the sugar-water is boiling. When the water is boiling add the cut sweet potatoes and ginger to the sugar water. Let it all heat up and wait until the sweet potatoes are cooked soft. Stir once in a while while heating the soup. When the potatoes are soft and the soup is hot turn of the stove.
Stir well and serve it while it is hot. Before diggin’in let it cool a little bit to not burn your tongues.

Try it out and Keep Experimenting!