The joy of cheap Asian sucking candies

[Fat Guy]

A while back, I asked for -- and received -- help identifying a mystery Asian sucking candy (it turned out to be guava-flavored). Since then, I've been more and more interested in Asian sucking candies. Pricewise, they make a mockery of the other sucking candies in the marketplace, and their flavors tend to be more interesting.

Are you an Asian-sucking-candy enthusiast? Any wit and wisdom to share?

[Shalmanese]

The white rabbit style milk candies are a fond memory of many a Chinese childhood.

[Beebs]

Got a big bag of sour plum hard candies in my office drawer. It's a sour-salty dried plum in the middle of a hard candy (maltose, I think). The candy is about the size of a large cherry. It takes a while to get to the plum in the middle, but it's got an interesting sweet-sour-salty flavour and it's fun to work the plum around in your mouth and nibble out the plummy bits (taking care not to crack a tooth on the pit).

[nakji]

Korean grape ones are excellent. So are the melon ones. I had some excellent cane sugar and yuzu ones sent to me recently from a friend in Japan.

[Kat Tanaka Okopnik]

Having grown up with the Japanese and Korean ones, I found American hard candies to be not worth the potential cavities when I was a child.

[Darienne]

A while back, I asked for -- and received -- help identifying a mystery Asian sucking candy (it turned out to be guava-flavored). Since then, I've been more and more interested in Asian sucking candies. Pricewise, they make a mockery of the other sucking candies in the marketplace, and their flavors tend to be more interesting.

Are you an Asian-sucking-candy enthusiast? Any wit and wisdom to share?

And my question, which was tacked onto Fat Guy's question remains unsolved: my mystery Chinese candy, which IS NOT White Rabbit candy, which I have both eaten and made, but rather tastes of roasted sesame oil.

I have not seen it since and our local Asian market man cannot identify it either.