Hanfu-clad China student in England gifts traditional sweet treats to strangers on street to spread joy, share culture
- She dresses in traditional outfit, carries cluster of sweet treats
- Sugar-coated Song dynasty snacks delight London passers-by
A mainland student studying in England who shared free traditional Chinese snacks with strangers in the street to spread the joy of eating them, has trended on social media.
The woman, surnamed Wang, 24, from Chongqing municipality in southwestern China’s Sichuan province, is pursuing a master’s degree in Early Childhood Development at University College London.
Her childhood memories of eating the traditional snacks were so happy she wanted to pass on some of that positivity to people in her temporarily adopted home.
On February 20, Chongqing Television Station reported that Wang was sharing her delicious sugar-coated haws, which she made herself, with passers-by in the English capital.
Known as tang hulu in Mandarin, haws are rock sugar candied fruit on bamboo sticks, strung together and inserted in a gourd.