{"id":12146,"date":"2025-06-08T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=12146"},"modified":"2025-06-09T09:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T13:20:17","slug":"white-rabbit-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2025\/06\/white-rabbit-candy\/","title":{"rendered":"White Rabbit Candy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kara brought back White Rabbit candy from her visit to China. She gave me a small bag to try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The candy starts off as very firm, becoming chewy as it warms up in your mouth. There&#8217;s an edible inner wrapping made of glutinous rice, which addes to the texture. The original flavor is very mild, milky and vanilla-y, and not very sweet. Interesting. I found out that the candy originated in Shanghai, and I find it reminiscent of the mildness of other Shanghai cuisine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were many flavors in the small bag Kara gave me, not just the original flavor. From what I can find out online, there are at least 16 flavors: Original plus Banana, \u201cBrown creamy,\u201d Chocolate, Coffee, \u201cCooling\u201d (mint), Durian, Lychee, Maize (corn), Mango, Matcha, Osmanthus, Salty plum, Wasabi, Red Bean, Yogurt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the flavors I liked a lot. One of my favorite flavors was wasabi \u2014 it had just a touch of wasabi, not too spicy, a nice contrast to the underlying milky mildness of the candy. My other favorite flavor was what&#8217;s called &#8220;cooling&#8221; (what I&#8217;d call mint) \u2014 which also provided a nice contrast to the underlying flavor of the candy. Red bean was a little odd to my Western palate, but I did like the way it reminded me of dim sum red bean buns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other flavors I didn&#8217;t care for as much. Osmanthus was only faintly floral, and overall too bland for my tastes. Matcha didn&#8217;t work for me \u2014 I guess if you like boba tea this would be good, but I like my matcha unsweetened and with no milk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The best thing about White Rabbit candy is its mildness. It&#8217;s not too sweet; by contrast, I find most American candy far too sweet. And the flavors are subtle, not overpowering like some American candies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/White-Rabbit-candy-2-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Small paper-wrapped candies on a table top.\" class=\"wp-image-12147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/White-Rabbit-candy-2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/White-Rabbit-candy-2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/White-Rabbit-candy-2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/White-Rabbit-candy-2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/White-Rabbit-candy-2-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/White-Rabbit-candy-2.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kara brought back White Rabbit candy from her visit to China. She gave me a small bag to try. The candy starts off as very firm, becoming chewy as it warms up in your mouth. There&#8217;s an edible inner wrapping made of glutinous rice, which addes to the texture. The original flavor is very mild, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2025\/06\/white-rabbit-candy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;White Rabbit Candy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12148,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146\/revisions\/12148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}