Hard-Candied Fruits on a Stick

Walk through any street market in China and you’ll likely see skewers of candied hawberries, sticking out like flowers from a stand. These hawberries aren’t like the ones we have in the States—Chinese hawberries are larger, perfectly round, and dry and crunchy, almost like mealy baby apples (but in a good way).

I loved candied hawberries as a kid. Right before my college graduation, I took a road trip down to Louisiana to visit a few hawberry farms to see if we could start selling t