Ms. Tam put the burden down on the steps, reached out to remove the wooden clips with large plastic pieces surrounding the two light poles to prevent rainwater from entering. Every time the students have a summer vacation, Ms. Tam goes to sell rice paper and sweets in the afternoon to earn extra income to support her family.
At one end, there is an aluminum bowl containing freshly cooked malt candy, sprinkled with fragrant sesame on top. The other end of the load is a tray, on which there are rice paper and a bowl of grated coconut, and an aluminum can of Guigoz (a can of powdered milk) containing roasted peanuts. Co Tam's sugar for cooking candy was the popular yellow oval canopies at that time. But I don't know what secret she used, but when she poured the candy into the bowl, it was an extremely beautiful iridescent yellow honey color that gave off a soothing fragrance. Just looking at it makes me want to die.
Ingredients for malt and sesame candy, coconut fiber, crushed peanuts
Co Tam rice paper has two types. One type of rice paper is puffed with coconut milk, the other is black sesame rice paper. A piece of rice paper on one side is placed in a candy bowl, her hands dance on the other side, the golden candy film follows her hands to cover the surface of the cake. Each layer of candy film is unwrapped, not broken, just like the silk thread that crosses the silk strip. Up there are waxed coconut fibers that are shaved white, from a homemade tool that is a beer bottle cap attached to a wooden handle. And yet, you must sprinkle more roasted peanuts pounded in half, then break the rice paper upside down or leave the pieces as you like.
How enjoyable is it to bite a piece of candy wrapper after showering in the rain...
Candy cake
The rain made me miss the crunch of the crispy rice paper just put in my mouth, the sweet taste of the malt candy on the tip of my tongue, and then fainted because of the fatty taste of coconut and roasted peanuts… The summer of our children. I was like that at that time, it was not just the sound of cicadas and the brilliant phoenixes overhead...
