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liuzhou

liuzhou

7 hours ago, andiesenji said:

Isn't it the same as bing pian tang just a different form.  I have a flat block of it - Chinese cane sugar - raw, dark "bronw"  

from the local Asian market.  

 

 

冰片糖 (bīng piàn tāng) is just "brownish sugar" of any kind in a block - usually more yellow to light brown. The very dark sugar is referred to as 红片糖 (hóng piàn táng).

 

 I'm fairly certain the bīng piàn tāng in my supermarket is just regular sugar with molasses for colouring, as is most "brown sugar" in the west. Yuan bao sugar has a rich complex flavour quite different from bīng piàn tāng , My local supermarket sells both very separately at very different prices.

liuzhou

liuzhou

1 hour ago, andiesenji said:

Isn't it the same as bing pian tang just a different form.  I have a flat block of it - Chinese cane sugar - raw, dark "bronw"  

from the local Asian market.  

 

 

冰片糖 (bing pian tang) is just "brown sugar" of any kind in a block.

 

 I'm fairly certain the bing pian tang in my supermarket is just regular sugar with molasses for colouring, as is most "brown sugar" in the west. Yuan bao sugar has a rich complex flavour quite different from bing pian tang, My local supermarket sells both very separately at very different prices.

liuzhou

liuzhou

1 hour ago, andiesenji said:

Isn't it the same as bing pian tang just a different form.  I have a flat block of it - Chinese cane sugar - raw, dark "bronw"  

from the local Asian market.  

 

 

冰片糖 (bing pian tang) is just "brown sugar" of any kind in a block.

 

 I'm fairly certain the bing pian tang in my supermarket is just regular sugar with molasses for colouring, as is most "brown sugar" in the west. Yuan bao has a rich complex flavour quite different from bing pian tang, My local supermarket sells both very separately at very different prices.

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