1 surname Tang

1 boiled balls of glutinous rice flour, eaten during the Lantern Festival

1 concentrated

2 dense

3 strong (smell etc)

1 chicken stock

2 chicken soup

3 (fig.) chicken soup for the soul – i.e. feel-good motivational stories (often used disparagingly because the stories don't really effect change in people's lives)

1 to dawdle

2 to go slow deliberately

3 to fizzle out

4 to have all one's hopes dashed

5 (Tw) to have a soak in a hot spring

1 lit. a piece of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom)

2 fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch

1 to manage a situation badly (idiom)

1 secure as a city protected by a wall of metal and a moat of boiling water (idiom)

2 well fortified

3 invulnerable to attack

1 different broth but the same old medicine (idiom); a change in name only

2 a change in form but not in substance

1 battle-ax and boiling cauldron (idiom); facing torture and execution