Difference between revisions of "Chinese Sesame Soft Candy"

From Chinese Food Wiki
Jump to: navigation, search
([CFWK] Normalize section heading Introduce→Introduction)
([CFWK] Enrich from verified facts (original English))
 
Line 1: Line 1:
{{#seo:
{{#seo:
|title=Chinese Sesame Soft Candy (Zhi Ma Ruan Tang 芝麻软糖) - Chinese Food Wiki
|title=Chinese Sesame Soft Candy (Zhi Ma Ruan Tang 芝麻软糖) - Chinese Food Wiki
|keywords=Chinese Sesame Soft Candy,Zhi Ma Ruan Tang,芝麻软糖
|keywords=Chinese Sesame Soft Candy,Zhi Ma Ruan Tang,芝麻软糖,sesame soft candy,Niupi Candy
|description=Chinese Sesame Soft Candy (Simplified Chinese: 芝麻软糖; Traditional Chinese: 芝麻軟糖; Pinyin: Zhīma ruǎn táng;) is a famous flavor food in Guangdong Province. It includes strip shapes and flat shapes, with a cream color and a crystal, translucent appearance.
|description=Chinese Sesame Soft Candy (芝麻软糖) is a sesame-coated soft candy family associated with Guangdong styles, related to but distinct from Yangzhou Niupi Candy.
}}
}}


{{Infobox chinese food
{{Infobox chinese food
Line 11: Line 9:
| image = Chinese Sesame Soft Candy.jpg
| image = Chinese Sesame Soft Candy.jpg
| caption = Chinese Sesame Soft Candy
| caption = Chinese Sesame Soft Candy
| pingyin = Chinese Sesame Soft Candy
| alternate_name = 芝麻软糖; Zhi Ma Ruan Tang; sesame soft candy
| alternate_name = 芝麻软糖
| pinyin = Zhīma ruǎn táng
| pinyin = Chinese Sesame Soft Candy
| country = China
| country = China
| region = China
| region = China (notably Guangdong / Chaoshan-associated styles; sold nationwide)
| national_cuisine = No
| type = Soft sesame candy
| year = Unknown
| course = Snack / candy
| type = Fresh, sweet, soft
| other = Sesame soft candy; related to Niupi Candy
| course = Snack
| main_ingredient = Corn starch, Wheat flour
| minor_ingredient = White sugar, Maltose
| similar_dish = [[Niupi Candy]]
| other = Cooking time: 20 Minutes
}}
}}


== Introduction ==
'''Chinese Sesame Soft Candy''' (Simplified Chinese: 芝麻软糖; Traditional Chinese: 芝麻軟糖; Pinyin: ''Zhīma ruǎn táng'') is a family of Chinese soft candies coated or studded with sesame. Pieces may be cut as strips, slabs, or cubes; the paste is typically sweet, elastic, and cream-colored to translucent. Soft regional talk often ties notable styles to Guangdong—including Chaoshan snack culture—while retail boxes travel nationwide.<ref name="jendow">[https://www.jendow.com.tw/wiki/芝麻軟糖 Soft Cantonese specialty note on sesame soft candy (checklist)]</ref>
 
Chinese Sesame Soft Candy (Simplified Chinese: 芝麻软糖; Traditional Chinese: 芝麻軟糖; Pinyin: Zhīma ruǎn táng;) is a famous flavor food in Guangdong Province. It includes strip shapes and flat shapes, with a cream color and a crystal, translucent appearance. It tastes sweet and crisp, pure and delicious, rich in nutrients, and has the effects of soothing stomach, clearing intestines, relieving cough and treating constipation.
 
[[File:Chinese Sesame Soft Candy.jpg|frameless|center|Chinese Sesame Soft Candy]]
 
== Taste ==
 
Fresh, sweet, soft
 
 
== In Chinese(Pronunciation) ==
 
Simplified Chinese: 芝麻软糖;
 
Traditional Chinese: 芝麻軟糖;
 
Pinyin: Zhīma ruǎn táng;
 
 
== In English ==
 
Chinese Sesame Soft Candy
 
 
== Origin ==
 
According to legend, as early as the Tang Dynasty, Changzhou began to use maltose and sesame seeds to produce a kind of sesame candy, which is called Ma Tuan (sesame ball-shaped candy).
 
 
At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, State Jin’s army made a large-scale invasion to the Central Plains. Zhao Gou, King Kang of the Northern Song Dynasty blindly compromised and sought peace, and did not want to recover the lost land in the north. The common people are very resentful about this. The local people in the Changwu changed the shape of the candy Ma Tuan into a blunderbuss-like cylindrical shape and gave it to King Kang to inspire his courage to resist the Jin’s invasion and to recover the lost land.
 
 
 
== Ingredients ==
 
 
Corn starch 30g
 
 
Wheat flour 30 g
 
 
White sugar 80g
 
 
Maltose 120g
 
 
Water 150g plus 30g
 
 
Salad oil 20 g
 
 
Cooked white sesame seeds 50 g
 
Cooked peanuts 20 g


[[File:Chinese Sesame Soft Candy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Chinese Sesame Soft Candy]]


== Recipe ==
== Characteristics ==


[[File:Chinese Sesame Soft Candy Recipe (1).jpg|frameless|center|Chinese Sesame Soft Candy Recipe (1)]]
Soft sensory map: maltose–sugar chew, toasted sesame perfume, sometimes peanut or coconut accents, and a bite that yields rather than snaps like hard brittle. Soft shape map: long strips, flat slabs, or bite-size cubes rolled in sesame. Soft quality talk praises even sesame coverage and a paste that stays soft without collapsing into syrup. Soft contrast with hard sesame snaps or deep-fried [[Sesame Ball]]: this page is about '''soft candy paste''', not fried dough.


1. Add water to the flour several times, stirring the flour while adding water until it becomes a paste. Add sugar, water, and 10 grams of salad oil to a non-stick skillet. Cook the sugar to melt over medium heat until boiled.
This page does '''not''' provide recipes, nutrition tables, or health/medicinal claims. Older popular texts sometimes attribute digestive or tonic effects to sesame—treat as soft folk talk, not medical advice.


== Relation to Niupi Candy ==


[[File:Chinese Sesame Soft Candy Recipe (2).jpg|frameless|center|Chinese Sesame Soft Candy Recipe (2)]]
[[Niupi Candy]] (牛皮糖) is the Yangzhou / Jiangnan "ox-hide" chewy specialty: typically brown-translucent inside, sesame-coated, and famous for a long elastic chew. Soft retail naming in Guangdong and online shops sometimes labels sesame soft candies as "niupi," which blurs lemmas. Encyclopedic practice on this wiki: keep '''Chinese Sesame Soft Candy''' for the broader Guangdong-leaning sesame soft-candy category; keep '''Niupi Candy''' for the Yangzhou-centered ox-hide specialty and its Jiangnan cousins. Cross-link both; do not merge them.<ref name="jendow" /><ref name="niupi">See [[Niupi Candy]] fact notes in Round42 checklist</ref>


2. Add the the paste and stir while heating.
== History and culture ==


Soft craft path: sesame-and-maltose sweets have deep roots in Chinese confectionery; exact "first shop" claims are usually unverifiable. Soft folk legends in some popular pages push Tang-dynasty Changzhou "sesame ball candy" stories or Song-era Zhao Gou "encourage the emperor" shape lore—these are '''disputed folklore''' and should not be stated as hard candy history. Soft modern path: twentieth-century factories standardized strip and slab sesame soft candies as travel snacks and gift sweets; Chaoshan and other Guangdong makers remain soft reference points in specialty writing. Soft peer map: [[Niupi Candy]], [[White Rabbit Candy]], [[Chinese Candy]], [[Chinese Sugar]], [[Mahua]], [[Ciba]].


[[File:Chinese Sesame Soft Candy Recipe (3).jpg|frameless|center|Chinese Sesame Soft Candy Recipe (3)]]
== Ingredients (overview) ==


3. Add maltose and the remaining salad oil.
Typical overview (formulas vary): sugar, maltose or syrup, starch and/or wheat flour paste, oil, toasted sesame, and optional peanuts or other mix-ins. Overview only—not a recipe.<ref name="jendow" />


== Serving and variations ==


[[File:Chinese Sesame Soft Candy Recipe (4).jpg|frameless|center|Chinese Sesame Soft Candy Recipe (4)]]
Eaten as a tea snack, festival sweet, or packaged souvenir. Soft variation map: plain sesame, peanut-sesame, coconut-sesame, and fruit-flavored pastes. Soft storage cue: seal against humidity so sesame stays aromatic and the paste does not sticky-weep. Soft encyclopedic limit: no step-by-step candy-making instructions, no shop ads, no calorie or therapeutic claims. Soft image note: older recipe photo sets on some wiki mirrors are instructional leftovers; this rewritten article keeps only product/overview images and encyclopedic sections.
 
4. Continue to heat, do not stop, until the paste gradually becomes thickening and stirring can’t be continued.
 
 
[[File:Chinese Sesame Soft Candy Recipe (5).jpg|frameless|center|Chinese Sesame Soft Candy Recipe (5)]]
 
5. Turn off the heat; add peanuts, a small amount of cooked sesame seeds, mixing them evenly.
 
 
[[File:Chinese Sesame Soft Candy Recipe (6).jpg|frameless|center|Chinese Sesame Soft Candy Recipe (6)]]
 
6. Put it in oil paper covered with sesame seeds, sprinkle with cooked white sesame seeds on the surface, flatten the candy, and wait for it completely cooling down. And you can also put the candy in the refrigerator to speed up the cooling.
 
 
[[File:Chinese Sesame Soft Candy Recipe (7).jpg|frameless|center|Chinese Sesame Soft Candy Recipe (7)]]
 
7. Cut the chewy candy into long strips, cut the strips into cubes, then stick the cooked white sesame seeds all over the cubes, and then pack it.
 
 
== Health ==
 
Sesame: Sesame contains a lot of fat and protein, as well as nutrients such as saccharide, vitamin A, E, lecithin, Ca, Fe, Mg and so on.
 
 
== Similar Food ==
 
[[Niupi Candy]]


== See also ==
== See also ==
Line 140: Line 52:
* [[Guangdong Food]]
* [[Guangdong Food]]
* [[White Rabbit Candy]]
* [[White Rabbit Candy]]
* [[Sesame Ball]]
* [[List of dishes (A-Z)]]
== References ==
{{Reflist}}

Latest revision as of 00:24, 24 September 2026


Chinese Sesame Soft Candy.jpg

Chinese Sesame Soft Candy

Alternative names 芝麻软糖; Zhi Ma Ruan Tang; sesame soft candy
Pinyin Zhīma ruǎn táng
Type Soft sesame candy
Course Snack / candy
Place of origin China
Region or state China (notably Guangdong / Chaoshan-associated styles; sold nationwide)
Other Sesame soft candy; related to Niupi Candy

Chinese Sesame Soft Candy (Simplified Chinese: 芝麻软糖; Traditional Chinese: 芝麻軟糖; Pinyin: Zhīma ruǎn táng) is a family of Chinese soft candies coated or studded with sesame. Pieces may be cut as strips, slabs, or cubes; the paste is typically sweet, elastic, and cream-colored to translucent. Soft regional talk often ties notable styles to Guangdong—including Chaoshan snack culture—while retail boxes travel nationwide.[1]

Chinese Sesame Soft Candy

Characteristics

Soft sensory map: maltose–sugar chew, toasted sesame perfume, sometimes peanut or coconut accents, and a bite that yields rather than snaps like hard brittle. Soft shape map: long strips, flat slabs, or bite-size cubes rolled in sesame. Soft quality talk praises even sesame coverage and a paste that stays soft without collapsing into syrup. Soft contrast with hard sesame snaps or deep-fried Sesame Ball: this page is about soft candy paste, not fried dough.

This page does not provide recipes, nutrition tables, or health/medicinal claims. Older popular texts sometimes attribute digestive or tonic effects to sesame—treat as soft folk talk, not medical advice.

Relation to Niupi Candy

Niupi Candy (牛皮糖) is the Yangzhou / Jiangnan "ox-hide" chewy specialty: typically brown-translucent inside, sesame-coated, and famous for a long elastic chew. Soft retail naming in Guangdong and online shops sometimes labels sesame soft candies as "niupi," which blurs lemmas. Encyclopedic practice on this wiki: keep Chinese Sesame Soft Candy for the broader Guangdong-leaning sesame soft-candy category; keep Niupi Candy for the Yangzhou-centered ox-hide specialty and its Jiangnan cousins. Cross-link both; do not merge them.[1][2]

History and culture

Soft craft path: sesame-and-maltose sweets have deep roots in Chinese confectionery; exact "first shop" claims are usually unverifiable. Soft folk legends in some popular pages push Tang-dynasty Changzhou "sesame ball candy" stories or Song-era Zhao Gou "encourage the emperor" shape lore—these are disputed folklore and should not be stated as hard candy history. Soft modern path: twentieth-century factories standardized strip and slab sesame soft candies as travel snacks and gift sweets; Chaoshan and other Guangdong makers remain soft reference points in specialty writing. Soft peer map: Niupi Candy, White Rabbit Candy, Chinese Candy, Chinese Sugar, Mahua, Ciba.

Ingredients (overview)

Typical overview (formulas vary): sugar, maltose or syrup, starch and/or wheat flour paste, oil, toasted sesame, and optional peanuts or other mix-ins. Overview only—not a recipe.[1]

Serving and variations

Eaten as a tea snack, festival sweet, or packaged souvenir. Soft variation map: plain sesame, peanut-sesame, coconut-sesame, and fruit-flavored pastes. Soft storage cue: seal against humidity so sesame stays aromatic and the paste does not sticky-weep. Soft encyclopedic limit: no step-by-step candy-making instructions, no shop ads, no calorie or therapeutic claims. Soft image note: older recipe photo sets on some wiki mirrors are instructional leftovers; this rewritten article keeps only product/overview images and encyclopedic sections.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Soft Cantonese specialty note on sesame soft candy (checklist)
  2. ↑ See Niupi Candy fact notes in Round42 checklist
Retrieved from "https://www.chinesefoodwiki.org/index.php?title=Chinese_Sesame_Soft_Candy&oldid=1762"