sweets in night markets

Sweets in Night Markets

By Lily.Michelle.Monica.Tiffany

Introduction

When it comes to night markets, “food” is

the first word flashing into our mind. Both

sweets and salty foods are seen in night

markets. Our group is responsible for

sweets. With our careful selection, we

decide to introduce some traditional

snacks. We hope that you can understand

more about our food culture from our

presentation.

Tofu Pudding & Ice Shavings

• Tofu pudding, a traditional snack, originated from ancient China. White and soft, it tastes like Tofu.

• Ice shavings look like snowflakes. They cater for people of all ages. They are always eaten with trimmings such as red beans, pearls, taro balls, peanuts

and whatever you like. The

most important thing is to

add sugar water to it.

Trimmings

Tofu Pudding→

Hot Chinese Herb Jelly (Shau Shan Chau)

• When it is served hot, it looks and tastes like condensed sweet soup. When it gets cooler, it tastes like jelly.

• We Taiwanese enjoy it in cold winter. Take our school for example. It is sold in our school canteen in winter.

• You can eat it without any

trimmings or choose any

flavor you want, just like the

traditional tofu pudding and ice shaving.

Hot Chinese Herb Jelly (Shau Shan Chau)

Egg Cakes & Horse hooves• Egg cakes and horse hooves are both made of

flour and milk. • The difference between them is that the former

is baked and latter is fried. Egg cakes become fluffy after baked. While the horse hooves taste crispy.

• Egg cakes are in the shape of animals while horse hooves are only in the shape of horse hooves. Children all like them very much.

Horse hooves →

Egg Cakes

Wheel cake

• It is also made of flour and egg but has fillings in it. Usually 7 kinds of fillings are available, including cream, red bean, sesame, taro, peanut, dried radish and cabbage.

• As a dessert, sweet

flavors are more popular.

Taro　 Flavor →

Cream Flavor →

Aiyu jelly & Tapioca balls

• Aiyu jelly is made from the plant named Aiyu. It’s like jelly and has a very special flavor.

• Lemonade and sugar water are added so that it tastes sweet and sour.

• Tapioca balls are just 　 like pearls, with lighter 　 color. People always　 eat them together.

Sugarcoated haw on a stick (Tang hu lu)

• First, choose any fruit you want and string them up (we usually use tomatoes, strawberries, preserved fruit).

• Then put it into boiling sugar. When the coating solidifies, it’s done.

• It tastes great but a little bit hard. • With crispy coating, the elderly whose teeth are not very good might have trouble with it.

Many different kinds of Tang hu lu