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Dragon’s Beard Candy: Million-Strand “Candy Floss” that Melts in Your Mouth

Yoyo ChowJan 05, 2022

Also known as the king of candies, one piece of Dragon’s Beard Candy contains a filling wrapped in 16,000 threads of sugar. 

Also known as the king of candies, one piece of Dragon’s Beard Candy contains a filling wrapped in 16,000 threads of sugar. Kenny Yuen, whose dad was one of the first to introduce the candy to Macau, shows us the gentle hands needed to make it right.

Shop address: 24-12 Calçada da Igreja de São Lázaro, Macao 

This is the first episode of our series about established mom-and-pop eateries in China, candy edition. In the next episode, we visit an expert in Anhui who makes good luck candy. Stay tuned!

Yoyo Chow
Yoyo Chow is a senior reporter at Goldthread. She was previously a video journalist at Reuters, covering daily news and producing feature stories during the 2019 protests and the pandemic. She was also a freelance social video producer with SCMP.
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