Tanghulu originally started out with hawthorn berries, but in Korea what you mostly see for sale are easy-to-find fruits like strawberries. I heard that over in Daerim there is the original hawthorn-berry tanghulu imported from China, so I went to have a look.
Like this..
Unwrapping it..
Sweet-tart, it tasted just like a thick raspberry jam with apple in it. So this was the real bingtanghulu that shows up in wuxia novels, I thought..
A place like this
I take it that “sanja” is “sansa”, the hawthorn. Even if it is frozen, being able to taste the original here in Korea left nothing to be desired.
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