Tanghulu are a traditional food found all over China and one of the most delicious snacks in Chinese cuisine! These “Bing Tanghulu” are made of freeze-dried hawthorn berry, a superfood fruit, coated in a thin layer of crunchy sugar.
Tanghulu are usually made with fresh hawthorn on a stick, and are impossible to find outside of Chinese speaking countries. While there are some frozen versions now available in the US, these freeze-dried ones are superior and have an authentic taste just like the traditional snack.
Hawthorn is a superfood fruit that’s also a traditional Chinese medicine herb used for digestion, improving metabolism, and fat loss, and is the main ingredient in several of our best-selling herbal formulas.
During the Southern Song Dynasty (960 to 1279 AD), the emperor Song Guangzong’s favorite Imperial concubine fell ill and refused to eat or drink. As she lay on her deathbed, no doctors could figure out how to cure her, resulting in the emperor spending large sums of money searching for a treatment. Eventually, a physician arrived at the palace to prescribe a cure for the concubine. He asked palace cooks to prepare hawthorn with rock sugar, and ordered the concubine to take 5-10 pieces of this candied hawthorn at normal mealtimes. A few days later, the concubine recovered, and Tanghulu became a new favorite medicinal snack.
125 grams per bag. Each bag contains approximately 16-18 individually wrapped and pitted hawthorn fruit snacks sprinkled with sesame seeds. Note: occasionally a hawthorn berry may not have all its seeds removed.
Instructions: Best if placed in freezer at least for 30 minutes prior to eating for best texture.
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