糖葫芦- Candy gourd

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I have read many articles about "Chinese food beauty", I see a lot of delicious Chinese food is beautifully decorated and delicious taste. However, I will write about a dish that 100% sure people on the earth know this dish. The Candy gourd has become the desire, the desire of every child, and become the image attached to childhood love the small screen.

From the moment I watched the Chinese film I saw children love to eat red lollipop.
Candy gourd are also popular in northern and northeastern China. But in Chinese minds, candy gourd is the soul of Beijing. Candy sellers carry a lot of candy gourd, they sell on bicycles, four-wheelers, and they carry colorful shades all over the city.
Most of the candy are 8 to 10 pellets.

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In addition to the apples, people add other ingredients such as lychees, chestnuts to candy. The cover also uses a variety of fruits such as kiwi, strawberry, pineapple, raisins and even chocolate. Red colors represent good luck and goodness is still used as the main color, but intermingled with other colors of the fruit, which makes the bevel become particularly attractive to both adults and children. .

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I have seen many videos on youtube on how to make candy, I will summarize how to make :
you need to prepare:

small apples or plums or fruits you like.
200gr sugar cane.
200ml of water.
Roasted / Sesame Roasted.
bamboo skewers, large saucepan.
Wash fruit and soak fruit with diluted salt water.Remove the seeds in the fruit. Slice the fruit into bamboo sticks. The vertical axis of the fruit. You boil 200ml of water and 200grams of alum sugar, simmer, beat evenly to blend the mixture, and have a pale yellow color. When the pot is running low, there appear large, thick bubbles like syrup, you dip fruit into the pot. Sprinkle a little peanut or roasted sesame on skewers to look more attractive