Tanghulus are a delicious treat sold on the streets in China. It is made of haws (the fruit from the hawthorn bush) which is stuck on a skewer and coated in sugar. Some are coater in powered sugar, and some are crystallized in sugar. These treats are sold in almost every street corner in northern China.
The legend is that in the Song Dynasty an emperor fell very ill and none of his physicians could find a cure. All except one. This physician prescribed him to eat tan sticks of haws coated in sugar water before each meal. Nobody believed he would survive. But soon afterword his ailment left him. Another story is that the emperor's concubine became ill with the same results. So eat your Tanghulus!!! :)
Woah, those seem so cool! Do you know where we can get them?(Store, etc) Oh, and if they do, do they sell them to other countries/continents?
ReplyDeleteYummm those look really really delisiosly sweet
ReplyDeleteyou gonna post a recipe?????
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ReplyDeleteSo they are like a fruit/sugar version of
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Cool! But I wonder how the Emperor's concubine also got the disease......hmmmmmmmm.......
Anyway, LONG LIVE THE EMPEROR!