... a very painful death of your childhood memories.
I remember how as a little child we would make our way to our local grocer/Chinese herbalist shop where we would get this White Rabbit Creamy Candy. This is one of China's most popular exported candy and why wouldn't it be - it was white, it felt like you were chewing bunnies, it was creamy, and it was one hell of a candy!
The sweet itself is really interesting - once you unwrap the outside wrapper you're confronted with a thin, transclucent, edible paper-like wrapping. I remember my initial frustrations as a child, trying to separate the transparent layer from the sweet. It was only when someone pointed out to me that I could eat that layer (lah, bodoh!) that I began to truly enjoy this candy. The initial melting of the first layer as your warm saliva dissolves it to reveal the vanilla candy within that tastes like solidified condensed milk - ah! Heaven in your mouth!
Which is why recent reports of this candy being tainted with the kidney-killing melamine means that my child will have to forego the pleasures of this creamy bunny delight. Oh well, he'll have to drink straight out of a non-China imported condensed milk can for his sugar fix instead.
(All those who made Milo with condensed milk sandwiches as a child, please stand up.)
4 comments:
I KNOW!! so sad right...the white rabbit sweet is so yummy..esp when can eat with wrapper..make it so special..and now?? no more!!!
Haha! You're right! A lot of things from our childhood will slip from our hands... Ding Dang, Choki Choki, Kum Kum... What will our children eat?
urmm i think choki choki is still around...i thought i saw it when i went back...but kum kum?! what in the world is that?!
You don't know your Kum Kums? It was this twisties like snack we used to have a long time ago. Really cheap. 20 sen a packet. And enough colouring to keep us bouncing for the next week.
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