{"id":1046,"date":"2020-11-25T21:58:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T21:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2022-02-25T15:41:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T15:41:21","slug":"a-taste-of-tanghulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/2020\/11\/25\/a-taste-of-tanghulu\/","title":{"rendered":"A taste of tanghulu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8211; <em>The mostly favoured flavour of wintry snack in Northern China<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you think that in winter a hot coffee (or tea) is all that you need to treat yourself while outing in China, especially in the north, you may have missed your sweet memory. Our Chinese LIG volunteer, Xiaohui, whose hometown in South China, is receiving pre-service training in Beijing currently. She will tell you what she has discovered in her spare time wandering around capital city, as shown below. <br><br>Have you been to China and seen this? Are there anything similar to this in your own country?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:58% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"449\" height=\"561\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/11\/\u7cd6\u846b\u82a6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1047 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/11\/\u7cd6\u846b\u82a6.png 449w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/11\/\u7cd6\u846b\u82a6-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em><strong>What&#8217;s this and what&#8217;s it called?<\/strong><\/em><\/li><li><em><strong>What&#8217;s it made of?<\/strong><\/em><\/li><li><em><strong>How to eat it?<\/strong><\/em><\/li><li><em><strong>What does it taste like?<\/strong><\/em><\/li><li><em><strong>How much does it cost?<\/strong><\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 49%\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"574\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/11\/Liao-Xiaohui-574x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1048 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/11\/Liao-Xiaohui-574x1024.jpg 574w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/11\/Liao-Xiaohui-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/11\/Liao-Xiaohui-768x1370.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/11\/Liao-Xiaohui-861x1536.jpg 861w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/11\/Liao-Xiaohui.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Now here is what Xiaohui explains &#8211; <\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Name in Chinese: \u7cd6\u846b\u82a6\uff08\u51b0\u7cd6\u846b\u82a6\uff09<\/li><li>Pinyin: <em>t\u00e1ngh\u00falu<\/em> (<em>b\u012bngt\u00e1ngh\u00falu<\/em>)<\/li><li><em>Lit<\/em>: sugar bottle gourd (rocky sugar bottle gourd); \u51b0 (<em>b\u012bng<\/em>, ice), \u7cd6 (<em>t\u00e1ng<\/em>, sugar\/candy), \u846b\u82a6 (<em>h\u00falu<\/em>, bottle gourd)<\/li><li>Name in English: candy hawberry (or candy fruit)<\/li><li>Ingredients: typically \u5c71\u6942 (sh\u0101nzh\u0101, Chinese hawberry) or more recently a variety of other fruits like \u6854\u5b50 (j\u00fazi, mandarin orange), \u82f9\u679c (p\u00ednggu\u01d2, apple), \u7315\u7334\u6843 (m\u00edh\u00f3ut\u00e1o, kiwi), \u8349\u8393 (c\u01ceom\u00e9i, strawberry), \u9999\u8549 (xi\u0101ngji\u0101o, banana), and many more; \u7cd6\u6d46 (t\u00e1ngji\u0101ng, sugar syrup)<\/li><li>Eat as it is, one by one &#8211; similar to eating BBQ skewers but very different feel &#8211; it is best to eat in winter as the sugar coating is hardened by the cold weather as if one&#8217;s tasting ice<\/li><li>Sweet (from sugar coating), sweet and sour (from fruits)! <\/li><li>Only 7 \u5757 (ku\u00e0i, the colloquial of RMB <em>yuan<\/em>) per skewer (less than one pound)<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Additional information<\/strong><\/em> <br><em>It has nothing to do with fruit gourd in ingredients but that it somewhat resembles the shape of bottle gourds put together. Hence, the name.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Extended reading<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mp.weixin.qq.com\/s\/gE9Vu8GAnglDlIOKwqgiVQ\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mp.weixin.qq.com\/s\/gE9Vu8GAnglDlIOKwqgiVQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u5f53Tanghulu\u8d70\u5411\u4e16\u754c\uff0c\u4f60\u4f1a\u53d1\u73b0\u683c\u5c40\u5c0f\u4e86\uff01<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; The mostly favoured flavour of wintry snack in Northern China If you think that in winter a hot coffee (or tea) is all that you need to treat yourself while outing in China, especially in the north, you may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/2020\/11\/25\/a-taste-of-tanghulu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-language","category-chinese-lig"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa93ff-gS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2318,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/2318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}