Address: No. 15, Section 3, Roosevelt Rd, Da’an District, Taipei City, Taiwan 106
The full name of Sheng Kee Bakery.
Modern looking shop. Here is an article about this bakery and its products.
南棗核桃糕 - Nán zǎo hétáo gāo (Nanzao Walnut Cake). Nanzao is a type of dates. These are the dates walnuts soft candy, individually packed. I bought a few packs for my friend. Don't remember how much they cost.
Ingredients.
This photo is sourced from the internet. This is how the Dates Walnuts Soft Candy looks like. I ate a lot of these Candy when my mother brought them back whenever she visits my grandmother in Taiwan. They are very tasty. The dates parts are soft and the walnuts are crunchy. Very tasty candy.
Recipe to make this date walnut soft candy at home. Another recipe can be read here. Zhen Yi Xuan bakery also sells this Date Walnut Soft Candy called Nanzao Walnut Cake at TWD 500 (about MYR 72) for 420 g.
*** Wednesday 1 July 2020 d106 ***
10.40 am - my brunch of bread, kaya, and Milo cereal. I always eat bread directly from its bag.
3 pm - a piece of pork meat, half a hard boiled egg and rice. Every Wednesday we will go buy takeaway seafood meehoon and pork vinegar rice or braise pork rice from Choy Kee and Lucky Alley coffee shops for our meals. Dinner is just biscuits and one orange shared by two pax.
Are the candy hard and tough for week teeth?
ReplyDeleteErhhhh, no cos they are soft.
Delete*weak teeth
ReplyDeleteThey are suitable for weak teeth.
DeleteThe dates walnut looks really good from here. Must be sweet too...and sticky. :D
ReplyDeleteYes on the sweet side. Not too sticky. Texture is like dates. Your wife should make some with your son and daughter. They would enjoy eating this candy if they like the taste of nanzao. Dark dates.
DeleteNot into that kind of candy. I see one half of a stewed egg, now that, I like!
ReplyDeleteIf you like the taste of dark dates, you might surprise yourself that you may like these dates Walnut candy. That egg is yummy!
DeleteThe dates walnut candy sounds interesting. I won't mind trying one piece. Is your grandmother Taiwanese?
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother is born in China but moved to live in Taiwan and has been living there ever since. Will you try to make this dates Walnut candy since you are good in baking and cooking? Must use dark dates Nanzao.
DeleteInteresting candy. I like walnuts, not so much dates as in candy. Bought some red dates snack (somerhing like baked and crispy) from China and still have a lot of it at home. Kids dont like it. Haha.
ReplyDeleteWell this is not like candy as in sweets. It is something like soft nougats. The dates parts are dark dates and soft. Have to try it to know whether you like it or not.
DeleteMy mouth and saliva is drooling at the Dates Walnut Soft Candy. Taiwan is great in making these candies and nougats. I love them. I think I ate these similar Dates Walnut Candy in X'ian as they grow lots of dats and wolfberries there. However I always felt safer to buy from Taiwan than China and you could guess the reasons.
ReplyDeleteYou are right to associate these dates Walnut soft candies with nougats because they are quite similar. Yes I can guess. IyI guess you must be very busy so that's y no new posts. If your wife can spare some time, you can request for her to make these dark dates Walnut candies for u to eat.
DeleteI like braised pork rice....yummmzzz. Not so fond of those candies...I dun have sweet tooth.
ReplyDeleteThe pork is from pork trotter vinegar, yums! The dates candy is filled with walnuts so you may like it as you like to eat nuts.
DeleteAh ok....yes i like nuts! Jst bought a walnut cake yesterday.
DeleteYour Walnut cake is yums!
DeleteI like I have tasted the dates walnut soft candy and I quite like them.
ReplyDeleteThey are nice, right? And not that sweet.
DeleteNice to have relatives there.
ReplyDeleteHmm I'm not very much into this kind of candy.
You don't like the taste of dark dates?
DeleteNot a fan. I'd take some dates during Hari Raya occasionally but totally fine with not having any.
DeleteThose are way too sweet for me.
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