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Thursday, March 23, 2006
KonpeitoWhat’s truly baffling in the whole confectionery world is that most sweets are made from the same ingredients. Yet the processes applied to them and the combinations can yield vastly different results. The Bunny Basket Eggs reviewed last week are an excellent example of sugar done wrong.
If you ever saw Spirited Away, you may have seen this candy. They’re little multi-faceted sugar crystal lumps that look like three dimensional stars. There’s not much else to say about them except that they’re sweet and cute. If you’re looking for a special little something exotic for an Easter basket, these might fit the bill, the packaging is pink and pretty and of course the little pastel morsels of sugar are, well, rock candy. And rock candy rocks. You can even pick up a package and use it when you serve tea or coffee as a cuter version of the old sugar cubes. See also: CandyAddict.com review, JunkFoodBlog has more on the cultural significance and limited edition versions and Wikipedia has a full entry including the references to Kompeito in media.
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I remember buying rock candy every time I went to Knott’s Berry Farm as a kid. Why, I have no idea! But it was such a novelty to me.
On a different note, I tried a new (well, new to me) KitKat yesterday...Milkshake flavor. It’s got the malt thing going on, so I wondered if you’d seen it!
I found it at Long’s Drugs in Tustin, so I’m sure they’re around in LA. I also tried the new Mocha Hershey bar.
It’s kind of neat that you posted this one now. They refer to sakura flavored ones in one of the articles, and the cherry blossoms are in bloom her in DC now.
I have always been a big fan of rock candy. It looks so cool, and I really like the way it feels in my mouth. I haven’t seen any for sale in a few years except for the kind that comes on a stick, I prefer the larger crystals. I remember when I was younger, there was an article in National Geographic for Kids about how to make it at home. I wish I could find the article again.
Hey if you ever find that article let me know because I would like to know how to make it at home. Also I heard that it takes 7 to 10 days to make them and they poured semi-dissolved sugar into a spinning pan called a dora.
John - it shouldn’t be too hard to make.
Madison - usually you have to boil the sugar and water together to get rid of any crystals, then use a sugar soaked (and dried) string for the seed crystals.
Try this link.
In Chanoyu ("tea ceremony"), there is a style called Chabako that involves serving tea out of doors in summer. Cha-bako means tea box, and the utensils that are used are smaller-than-average ones which are fitted into a tea box, about the size of a shoebox.
Because of the size limitation, Chabako uses a tiny container for sweets called furibashi. The only sweets that that the furibashi can contain are...konpeito!
The first time I ever saw konpeito, it was in the context of tea ceremony. I know that they’re also enjoyed simply as “candy”, but to me they’ll always have a quasi-sacramental connotation. Weird, eh?
ur blog is really impressive i would say
and ive been looking for a pic of this candy in ages..
itz my fav for ages lolz..
I love these! they’re bit different consistencey than regular rock candy, and i keep a small jar on my desk at work.
I was also wondering if anyone has tried the “higher end” version of these that are made by hidemi.
Most recently i’ve bought these from http://www.asianfoodgrocer.com at around a dollar a bag, they offer discounts for bulk orders too.
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