Peach Gum (Tao Jiao)
一晩で10倍に膨らむ！？楊貴妃の美肌を支えた「琥珀色の宝石」
Description
Sap secreted from peach tree trunks, hardened into rock-solid amber resin by sunlight. Boasts immense popularity among Chinese women as 'commoner's bird's nest' (a cheap beauty food with collagen-like components). Rehydrating expands it multiple times into premium bouncy, syrupy jelly, starring in sweet dessert soups (Tong Sui).
Classification: Popular among women, Ingredient, Dry Goods, Medicinal, Tao Jiao, Dessert, Beauty, Plant Collagen, Amber
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How to use
Ingredients
- Dried resin secreted from Prunus persica (Peach) trees
Instructions
- [Typical Uses]
- [Tao Jiao Yin Er Geng (Peach Gum & Wood Ear Beauty Dessert)]: Boil rehydrated, cleaned Tao Jiao meltingly soft with white wood ear, jujubes, goji, and rock sugar.
- Put in milk or coconut milk instead of tapioca (exquisite mixed in milk tea).
Learn more Substitutes, pairings, tips
Key spices
Absolutely no taste or smell. Premium 'bouncy、slippery' throat-feel like black molasses jelly or tapioca
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Substitute texture with tapioca pearls or Kuzukiri
Pairing
White Wood Ear / Milk / Coconut Milk / Rock Sugar
Trivia
Being natural sap, black tree bark fragments mix in after rehydration. Meticulously washing them away in water is the 'ritual for beautiful skin'. Supreme whether warm or chilled as a cold sweet in the fridge.
Eating tips & etiquette
Looks like 'hard amber pebbles' when dry, but soaking overnight magically transforms it into a giant jelly mass overflowing the bowl. First-timers MUST start with an amount they think is 'too little' (a few pieces).
Allergen
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