Sentence:  "Steamed fish and chicken and vegetable soup and even mushrooms are considered cooling foods, edible materializations of the <WSD>"yang</WSD>", the pure primal air. The "yin", or earth element, inheres in fried dishes and especially in shark's fin soup. Am I right, Mr Lee?" 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with bright, hot, masculine, etc. elements of the natural world.