Sentence:  "Steamed fish and chicken and vegetable soup and even mushrooms are considered cooling foods, edible materializations of the "yang", the pure primal air. The <WSD>"yin</WSD>", 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 dark, cool, female, etc. elements of the natural world.