Guilin Ginger Candy

Guilin Ginger Candy is a traditional candy with both flavor and warmth, made from local ginger and sucrose, sweet with a hint of spiciness that returns to sweetness—a good choice for dispelling cold in autumn and winter. The process involves grinding ginger into juice, boiling it with melted sucrose and maltose until the syrup is thick enough to pull into threads, then pouring it on a chopping board and repeatedly pulling to lighten the color and make it firmer, finally cutting into pieces. The finished candy is amber with a slight sheen; it first tastes of sucrose's sweetness, then ginger's spiciness spreads on the tongue—mild and non-irritating, leaving a warm feeling in the throat afterward. It has a firm texture, needing slow chewing to appreciate the balance between ginger aroma and sugar sweetness. In Guilin's markets, you can often see masters pulling ginger candy on site, with golden syrup stretching in their hands like tough amber, very eye-catching. Ginger candy is not only a snack but also believed by local elders to relieve wind-cold symptoms, a delicious and functional specialty candy. Foreign visitors may be slightly "stimulated" by the ginger's spiciness at first, but will soon fall in love with this unique sweet-spicy flavor, finding it like a "warm sweet ginger candy" with strong memorability.