White Rabbit
Name: White Rabbit Creamy Candies
Place Purchased: Chinatown, Los Angeles
Price: $1.09
Size: 8 oz
Calories per ounce: 120
Type: Taffy
When buying candy where the package is pretty much all foreign to you, good packaging is a plus. The only thing in English on this bag of what I think is taffy are the required items of weight and the name of the product: White Rabbit. (And the subtitle of Creamy Candies or maybe that's the name of the candy and White Rabbit is the brand, I'm a little unsure. There's also a brand mark called Queensway Foods on the front.)
Inside are little white cylindrical candies. I figured taffy from looking at the ingredients which started with Corn Starch Syrup ... which I'm guessing is what we know as corn syrup.
I found I was pretty much correct, but the Asian spin on this is that they are wrapped in that rice paper cellophane that dissolves in your mouth. I love that stuff! I practically buy Botan Rice Candy just for the rice cello! Inside this edible inner wrapper is a bland, sweet and mild vanilla taffy. Unfortunately the batch I got was not particularly fresh and therefore not chewy, so I just sucked on it until it got soft enough to chew. The flavor is quite nice, not as sweet as you'd think for something that's pretty much all sugar, with a slight creamy/milky flavor to it. Just what the name implied!
Rating: 6 out of 10 (it'd be seven if they were softer)
6 Comments:
mmm white rabbit... i live in a pretty tropical area so i guess if you kept the packet in a warmish area theyd be nice and soft =)
That's an awesome idea, I think I'll throw them in the car tonight.
Maybe a couple of seconds in the microwave ... of course that could end badly. Better try it on the one at the office.
Asian kids love these - used to gobble them in China to satisfy my milk cravings. And yes, they should be squishy = )
I'm a little late getting to this page, but I must say it's nice to see this candy featured here. I used to love em as a kid but now I think they're kinda insipid. Anyway it's a nice site you have here and I've enjoyed poking around a bit.
pogo - you're right, there's not much to them, but I suppose that's the way plain vanilla taffy is.
Thanks for visiting!
I just tried some of these, I found them in our little Asian grocery down the street. I love them! Like salt-water taffy, but doesn't stick to your teeth quite so much (I guess that's a benefit of the ricepaper) and it's not so cloyingly sweet. Really good!
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