Dragon Beard Candy

Let's watch a video about how to make Dragon Beard Candy >.<

Dragon's Beard Candy (龍鬚糖)

   Do you remeber that I have introduced foreign cotton candy before? Today, I would like to introduce cotton candy too, but this is chinese cotton candy, which is called Dragon's beard candy(龍鬚糖). Did you taste it in your childhood? Dragon's beard candy is in my top ten of my favourite snacks. You must taste it at least once.

   Aucally,  Dragon's beard candy is a traditional chinese sweet, and  it has been invented for the emperor about 2,000 years ago. Thus, it were not only found in Hong Kong, but also can in Beijing, Shanghai and many cities in China.

  Dragon's beard candy is made by malt sugar, white sugar, peanut, sesame and desiccated coconut. It is cooked by well and experienced chefs. They always perform Dragon's beard candy's folding process in their stall. But you may seldomly see it in Hong Kong, you just can buy a pack of Dragon's beard candy only. If you will travel in China in the future, you may see the chef's performance later on. Therefore, if you want to taste it, I suggest you can go to Mongkok, becuase there is a stall specially that can sell Dragon's beard candy. The taste is very good!!! Let's try it @

 P.S.  I will post Dragon's beard candy of process video in our blog after later, please look forward the video!

Written by Natalie Wong

Candied Haws on a Stick "冰糖葫蘆"

Hi~ everyone. Nice to meet you. I’m Susan Tam. Now, the winter is coming. What do you want to eat in the winter? I like eating “Candied Haws on a Stick” which is a famous childhood snack in Beijing. Do you know it which is the red color? I’m going to show the picture for you. I think you may interest it.

I know that the western people may not be known that snack. It uses the Chinese hawthorn and malt sugar which taste sweet and acid. It tastes good. When you don’t want to eat more, it can make you have the appetite. I think there are less shop can buy in the western, right? If you want to eat, you can make it by yourself. Now, I’ll tell you how to make it.

Material: Fresh Chinese hawthorn, hard sugar, almond, red kidney bean paste, sugar candy scented with jasmine, sesame seed

Procedure: 

1.    Cleaning the fresh Chinese hawthorn, use the knife cut as like as the picture. This time may see as soon as the Chinese hawthorn nucleus, made an effort to extend the nucleus gently reverse to break off the nucleus naturally to fall off

2.    Take the red kidney bean paste, the almond, the walnut, and so on likes material even adding in the central. Then covers the other half with toothpick fixed good;

3.    Put the hard sugar and the water in the pot joins.The proportion probably is 2 hard sugar: 1 clear water. The fire burns to the ebullition, Then afterward transfers the flame. You don’t stop the agitation and slowly boils to the soup starts to emit the even decadent air bubble, joins 1 few sugar candy scenteds with jasmine, stirs;

4.    Put the Chinese hawthorn binds in the syrup. because its even to stain syrup. Then afterward puts in has soaked with the cold water on the plank or the stainless steel tray, scatters the sesame seed or the almond before it's too late is broken, lets its natural cooling then

It’s very easy to make , right? I hope you can make it and enjoy in the winter.

Now, there are many different kinds of fruit which can make “Candied Haws on a Stick”. I like eating strawberry so much. I remember that I like eating it when I go shopping. The feeling is so good.

Hope everyone can enjoy my sharing*

By Susan Tam

Making of 糖葱饼

Have a look!!

Chinese Style Egg Puffs/ Waffles (雞蛋仔)

     (Annyong haseyo!!) Halo, everyone. This is my

pleasure to share about one of my favourite childhood snacks to all of you today. To begin with, let’s guess which one is my favourite snack?

     Let’s me give you some tips, it shapes like an egg with golden yellow colour, smell like a cake and has sweet taste, nowadays, this kind of snacks is also popular and appear in the streets regularly. Does everyone perceive? Now I believe that you may know what it is!! 

     In my childhood, what is my must taste snacks? I can say it is Egg Puffs, which is one of popular and unique traditional street snacks. In addition, Egg waffles also ranked No.3 in the 50 most well-known "Street Snacks". It tastes sweet, I know there are different flavors, such as chocolate, coconut, strawberry, sesame and so on that sell at some restaurant in recent years. Egg Puffs make of egg, sugar, flour, and light evaporated milk. It’s really classic snack during my childhood.

     Right now, I will be talking about Egg Puffs, which can also call as Gei Dan Jai, Egg Waffles or even Eggettes. This is a Hong Kong style waffle that often made and sold by street hawkers on the street. Egg Puffs are foods that can be tasted, smelled and felt, also called tangibility. There are crisp on outside with a little layer of doughy-creamy texture on the inside, but you can know the bubbles are hollow. Nowadays, majority of Egg Puffs are using gas or electric tools or equipment to heat the mold so as to make a delicious Egg Puffs and sell by strret vendors. I may not tell you about egg puff's history a lot, as you can know via internet. 

      Let’s watch some videos that show you how to make Egg Puffs by using Egg Puffs maker together with ingredients or materials when needed during process. Moreover, you can also try to make it by yourself, here is the production process: 

＋Here are the links can click to explore＋

(If you can't watch the videos)


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Done it >.< Let’s Take Action@

     Is it easy to make the egg waffles?? Depends on your work or how effort you contribute to make it?? Remember the steps? Some procedures? Sufficient ingredients? Then, you may make a successful one and enjoy it. 

     You can also make Egg Waffles with your friends or even family, not also establish a good relationship with them, but also share feelings and experiences together.

     Hope you can enjoy the life and have a nice day!! Please feel free to leave some messagesto us/ send us feedbacks/share own opinions or common interests.

     This blogger is also a best platform to talk about Childhood Snacks together and dedicated to all of you, or people who want to remind valuable memory in their childhood. (KamShaMiDa!)

Cheers,

Sonia Ng

P.S. If you can create new flavour that add into the Egg Puffs when we make it, 

which flavour do you prefer??

Tell me about your ideas??

^O^ See you later =O=              ^O^ See you later =O=   

^O^ See you later =O=      

Videos - That's all about "Classic"

Here are some videos give you a general views about

 "Retrospective Childhood Snacks"

Just click the start button, afterwards, the following videos

will show you some of the childhood snacks!!!

If you can't see the above video,

please feel free to click the link:

 http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTQyNjcyOTI=.html

Let's watch the videos right now

(part of content are talking about the childhood snacks

that may recall your valuable memories)

We'll introduce you more impressive childhood snacks later on!!

~Please enjoy the episode~

P.S. Which one do you like the most??

Life is like drama, how about our childhood??

Tell me if you know...

Put Chai Ko (砵仔糕)

   

   Put Chai Ko is a chinese name. In english name, we can call Brown sugar rice pudding. i believe that many many Hong Kong residents must taste Put Chai Ko during their childhood.

  Put Chai Ko is a popluar snack which orginates from Hong Kong. It is plam size and sweet in taste. It si made from red bean, brown sugar or write sugar. It is soft, but can hold its molded shape outside of a small chinese bowl. Put Chai Ko is stuck by bamboopick and person hold it to eat.

   Athough Put Chai Ko is a long-history traditional chinese snack, it is still available today. We can find it in Chinese Pastry, snack shops or from street hawker.

Written by Natalie