Food, candy, garden photos, and manicure!

[elusivek]

But not in that sequence, I suppose! May I first sing praise to my manicure lady. She saved my finger! But my nails are now short and my fingers look so kiddy again! I went with a dark green that had a little shine. But with my short nails... it's so easy to type again! I can hold a pen again! I'll probably play a bit on the piano as well!

Lunch was a bit of a let down because apparently they didn't keep a lot of their cartoon dim sums. There was only that Dino dumpling thing and a Curry Crab tart. They've gotten rid of their goldfish-shaped shrimp dumplings and a porcupine-shaped sweet bun. It was sad.

Oh, I also did make an effort to go walk over to an area we call "Red Market" 紅街市... I couldn't find the shop or stall I was looking for. So I tried to do a search on Facebook to see if there's something like that, and apparently there is, and I had to walk all the way back to the area where my manicure place is. And when I stepped into the shop, it was themed to tell the history of this candy. And what do you have, a wall with a painting of the Red Market.

Dragon Hair Candy 龍鬚糖 (or, Dragon Beard Candy)

What it is, is a kind of candy floss thing, made by continuously pulling and folding the candy floss (think making a kind of noodle or spaghetti). Then that floss is used to wrap around some filling, crushed peanut and sugar. For the proper history lesson, I've linked to a Wiki article up there (LOL I ran out of ideas to bluff haha)

I'm also going to do a photo dump of the Lou Lim Ieoc Garden. Tiny bit of history:

It was built in 1906 by a... erm... guy called Lou Kau, I think it was his home or something. The garden itself is said to be special as it follows some kind of style Suzhou Gardens. It's now a public park. The actual area of the park is pretty small, but it feels big because of the design (that Suzhou Garden styles I mentioned)... with use of landscaping and rocks and whatnot, it's like a maze inside and feels a lot larger than it really is. For those who feel like reading up a little more, here is an interesting article. Now I wonder how haunted it is, LOL!

I've seen a lot of amazing photos of this bridge. I can't find the angle they took it. My sorry attempt at getting a good shot of this bridge. When the season is right, this lake is full of lotus flowers!

A couple years earlier, people had a, I don't know, colloquial saying that if they want to abandon turtles, just throw them in the Lou Lim Ieoc garden. I guess this is the abandoned turtles pond or fountain or whatever.

Comments

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, that's interesting on the candy. It would seem very sweet.

How sad that they got rid of the other cartoon buns. Sigh...

[notte0.livejournal.com]

It actually isn’t that bad. The white “hair” doesn’t have much taste (despite it being said to be made with sugar, i wonder why?) and it helps to cancel out the sweetness of the peanut filling. Though I have to say the candy itself looks like a silk worm cocoon!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I wonder if it was made from Isomalt (a sugar substitute, a type of sugar alcohol used primarily for its sugar-like physical properties.) It's not as sweet as regular sugar and bakers tend to use it for sugar sculptures because it's easy to work with. Too much of it can give you diarrhea, but you have to eat a ton of it.

That was what it looked like to me as well. :D

[mymimikyu.livejournal.com]

You live in such a beautiful area!

[notte0.livejournal.com]

Thank you :-)

[blastofserenity.livejournal.com]

Your nail look amazing! I'm glad they're back at a practical length for you! XD

Bummer about the other cartoon buns. D: hehehe, the dinos though.

I love the photos! The enjoyed looking at the turtles. :3

[deepseasiren.livejournal.com]

Do they have haw flakes over there? I used to love those wafer hawthorne berry discs!

[notte0.livejournal.com]

Oh, that’s like a classic snack or candy we had as kids! (And exactly this packaging too! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haw_flakes)) Usually when we take Chinese medicine (more like a medicinal tea) that is bitter like nobody’s business then we get these flakes as a consolation prize for having to take that yucky tea.

[hermitsmurf.livejournal.com]

That candy is so weird...it looks like something is growing on it. I would totally try it though!

[notte0.livejournal.com]

It actually isn’t that bad. The white “hair” doesn’t have much taste (despite it being said to be made with sugar, i wonder why?) and it helps to cancel out the sweetness of the peanut filling. Though I have to say the candy itself looks like a silk worm cocoon!