Sweets & desserts 甜点糖果

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AI illustration: Small rectangular and irregular pieces of sesame or peanut brittle and puffed-rice candy on a simple plate.
Jiangxi

Jinxi Lotus-Silk Candy 金溪藕丝糖

Jinxi Lotus-Silk Candy (金溪藕丝糖) is a hand-pulled sugar sweet from Jinxi county (金溪县) in Fuzhou (抚州), Jiangxi, made by drawing boiled malt sugar into fine white threads and wrapping them around a filling of sesame, soybean flour and osmanthus.

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AI illustration: Small rectangular and irregular pieces of sesame or peanut brittle and puffed-rice candy on a simple plate.
Shandong

Flaky Sesame Candy 芝麻酥糖

Flaky Sesame Candy (芝麻酥糖) is a hand-pulled sweet of white sesame and sugar from Binzhou (滨州), Shandong. Dazhong Net calls it a traditional Binzhou folk food and one of Shandong's well-known products.

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AI illustration: Small rectangular and irregular pieces of sesame or peanut brittle and puffed-rice candy on a simple plate.
Hubei

Xiaogan Sesame Crisp Candy 孝感麻糖

Xiaogan Sesame Crisp Candy (孝感麻糖) is a sesame sweet from Xiaogan (孝感) in Hubei. The Xiaogan Culture and Tourism Bureau describes it as sweet and fragrant with a crisp texture, and its making is on Hubei's provincial intangible cultural heritage list.

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Hubei

Xianning Osmanthus Rice Cake 咸宁桂花糕

Xianning Osmanthus Rice Cake (咸宁桂花糕) is a cake made from glutinous rice flour, sugar and honeyed osmanthus blossom (蜜桂花) in Xian'an district (咸安区) of Xianning (咸宁), Hubei.

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