White Rabbit Creamy Candies
My first ever Chinese candy review, and these are pretty much the most famous of the lot. I’m not sure what the name of the company who produce these is called, but these always get called White Rabbit, with the flavour coming afterwards, so I’m gonna go with that unless someone can inform me otherwise.
I first tried these about 5 years ago, in a trip to The Oriental Centre in London, I had my first taste of Oriental food, and White Rabbit candy was something that became a bit of a favourite of mine.
Essentially, this is a packet of individually wrapped chewy, vanilla flavoured sweets. I’m not sure what to compare them to, I’ve tried American taffy in the past and so my American readers will understand that, as for the British readers, it’s a little like toffee only a lot less hard, and quite soft and chewy, so perhaps somewhere between chewy caramel, and toffee.
The sweets are also covered in edible rice paper which is an interesting twist, the stuff always gets stuck to the roof of my mouth which is annoying, but other than that these are pleasant little sweets that are good to just have sitting on your desk for a little snack.
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April 3rd, 2008 at 6:10 pm
the rabbit on the front looks like a devil rabbit.
i had taffy once and it is rather yummy
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:48 pm
I agree! It’s the red eyes that do it and the menacing look that do it. O_O
Yeah taffy is ok, haven’t had it in years but I liked it, surprised we don’t have it here in all honesty.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:40 am
yeah it is def the red eyes. like it has stayed up all night plotting how to kill us all.
there is taffy over in this part of the world but it’s never called taffy. it just has the same texture. try the pound shops, they usually have some.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
I tried these once and was so annoyed that I was having trouble getting the inner paper wrapping off. I did end up eating some of the paper just trying to get to the taffy. So frustrating…I didn’t know until now that the paper was considered part of the candy (purposefully stuck and edible?). Still would have liked it better taffy only, sans rice paper.
April 4th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Ellie – You need to change your sleeping patterns darling if you’re having thoughts like that at 1:40am! I haven’t been to a pound shop in about 10 years, so I’m long overdue to get a bunch of obscure, foreign stuff from there.
Nuria – I did the same actually when I first got them! Then I was told by a friend that it was rice paper and so just let it melt, I still find it a little annoying though. :/
April 4th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
yeah i just read my comment and it is a bit sinister! i was on my second essay all nighter in two nights and totally hyped up on diet coke and sugar
April 7th, 2008 at 6:33 am
Had tried once & it’s delicious…..
September 15th, 2010 at 7:12 am
Nuria and Terry, yes, you’re supposed to eat the wrapper! I love these. The soft ones are the good kind. They had local White Rabbit candy in the Philippines. It was hard and caramel colored–bleagh.