February 13, 2018

Strawberry Bing Tang Hu Lu

Strawberry Bing Tang Hu Lu

This is an easy sweets recipe from my childhood in Taiwan–Bing Tang Hu Lu. Of the memories that I could see in my mind’s eye, my dad coming home with a skewer of hawberry tang hu lu sticks is one of the most vivid of the time we spent in my parents hometown of Taipei.

With Valentines Day and Chinese New Years just around the corner, I wanted to share this treat with my own kids who have never visited Taiwan before. I went back once in 2010, with one of my best friends (her dad lives in Taipei) and every night when we went to visit the night market, I’d walk in and buy a strawberry one, and buy another when when we’d leave to head home.

Sometimes, because I live a bit farther from the rest of my family (and they travel to Central America a lot), I feel a little disconnected from my Chinese heritage. But moments like these, making traditional things for my kids to eat and watching them enjoy it with all the wonder little children can muster, I can’t help but imagine that my sister and I must have been just like them when we were their age, even half the world away.


Ingredients

  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1/4 cup water
  • Optional 1 Tablespoon any floral syrup
  • 1 small cardboard box, with 8 holes poked by a skewer
  • 8 strawberries
  • 8 bamboo skewers
1. Remove the leaves from the strawberries, wash and pat strawberries dry, and skewer one strawberry on each skewer.
2. In a saucepan with a handle, combine sugar, water, and optional floral syrup. Mix the sugar and water so that all the sugar is wet. Turn heat on high and DON”T STIR.
3. Sugar will start to bubble and once it becomes a golden amber color (At this point, it should be thin and syrup-like), remove from heat and quickly dip each strawberry into the syrup, tilting the saucepan so that the syrup will be deep, and stick each coated strawberry skewers into the holes on the cardboard box to allow to cool.
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