"Amazing, my Qingqing!"
Huang Jun smiled, giving her a thumbs up, and after the compliment, added, "Alright, you guys go play in the living room first. Once the Sachima is ready, Dad will bring it over for you to eat..."
"Mmm hmm~"
The two little ones nodded and then ran towards the living room, one after the other.
Huang Jun withdrew his gaze and continued frying batch after batch of noodles, placing them in a large colander to drain the oil.
He set the oil pot aside and started making the sugar syrup.
Sachima, to put it simply, involves cleverly binding the fluffy fried noodles with sugar syrup, and its artistic name, "Sugar Twine," from the Qing Dynasty, derives from this method.
The process of making the sugar syrup is equally meticulous; you can't just use white sugar because that would make it too sweet and mask the egg flavor of Sachima.
Also, using only white sugar wouldn't provide enough stickiness in the syrup, so maltose is needed to enhance the viscosity.
