Turkey Floss Candy

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A colleague from the next team just returned from his Turkey/Egypt tour (I'm so jealous!) and has brought back a box of traditional floss halva for us as souvenir.

It's basically a whole fluffy ball of sugar, flour, vegetable fat and some other substances. It flakes if you try to break it apart, but the core is tighter than the outside, so when you cut it apart, the whole thing doesn't collapse. It's really sweet if you stick the whole candy ball into your mouth, but it's ok if you just take it bit by bit.

Well, I'm not a sweet person (in whichever way you want to interpret that), so it's really not my thing. The texture is interesting, you can somehow taste the flour... Most of my colleagues said that it tastes like the traditional Chinese silver strand candy (龍鬚糖) and Mr. Chan (my neighbouring colleague) said that it tastes like the almond cookies from Macau.

Um, I wonder...

[photo above: the shiny thing in front of the box is the real candy.]