冰糖葫芦 (bīngtánghúlu) · sugar-glazed hawthorn skewers, tanghulu

Measure Word

一串冰糖葫芦 chuàn

Meanings

1 sugar-glazed hawthorn skewers
2 tanghulu
3 candied fruit on a stick

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About the dish

京菜 Beijing · 小吃 Snack

Hawthorn berries or other fruit such as strawberries on a bamboo skewer, coated in a thin shell of hard, glassy sugar. Sweet outside and sour inside; hawthorns have seeds.

Characters

Examples

HSK 2

小朋友最喜欢吃冰糖葫芦。

Xiǎopéngyǒu zuì xǐhuan chī bīngtánghúlu.

Kids love eating tanghulu the most.

HSK 6

冬天的北京街头到处都是冰糖葫芦。

Dōngtiān de Běijīng jiētóu dàochù dōu shì bīngtánghúlu.

In winter, Beijing streets are full of sugar-glazed hawthorn skewers.

Tips

culture

An iconic Beijing/northern winter street food: red hawthorn berries (山楂) skewered on a stick and dipped in cracked-sugar syrup. The cold air sets the glass-hard coating. Legend traces it to a Song-dynasty emperor whose concubine was cured of illness by hawthorn boiled in sugar.