Pulled-Sugar Crepe ยท Hawker Nostalgia
Tong Cung Beng (Sugar 'Scallion' Crepe)
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There is no scallion in it: the name comes from the pulled maltose-and-sugar candy, which is stretched and folded until it looks like hollow white scallion stalks.
Pieces of the pulled-sugar candy are laid on thin flour wrappers with crushed peanuts, sesame seeds and desiccated coconut, then folded up.
Why it's made this way: Brought to Hong Kong by Chaoshan migrants around the 1930s, it became popular in the 1950s-60s, sold by hawkers carrying iron boxes with a glass window showing the candy.
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