{"id":50809,"date":"2026-05-08T14:42:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=50809"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:42:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:42:42","slug":"mandarin-peel-ice-cream-coffee-gin-why-chun-pei-a-tcm-ingredient-is-gaining-favour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=50809","title":{"rendered":"Mandarin peel ice cream, coffee, gin? Why chun pei, a TCM ingredient, is gaining favour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/05\/08\/d6916f8c-4076-4ff3-aa6f-db2aecc1fc8f_1712bc9e.jpg?itok=lJYNZ6vA&amp;v=1778213779\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The summer of 2016 was unseasonably hot, especially at the Fu Shin Street Wet Market in Tai Po, in Hong Kong\u2019s New Territories, where Chest\u2019N Nuts &amp; Dried Foods had called home for the last three years.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In this area with relatively low foot traffic, the shop\u2019s offerings of traditional confectionery, preserved and dried fruit, and freshly roasted chestnuts were not pulling in enough business.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">General manager Tse Yu-man\u2019s solution? Infusing his bestselling staples, such as dried mandarin peel \u2013 or <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">chun pei<\/em><\/span> \u2013 into ice cream.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cTraditional snacks are an important part of Hong Kong culture, and ice cream is an all-time beloved snack, so why not have both?\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Today, <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">chun pei<\/em> ice cream remains one of the shop\u2019s bestsellers after ginger and chestnut flavours. Tse has also opened a second branch in Mong Kok.<\/p>\n<h3 type=\"h3\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"eh0yk8h0 css-17x7qa9 e1pqa4re1\">What is chun pei?<\/h3>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Literally translating to \u201cold skin\u201d, these furled, sandpaper-textured, thick petal-like pieces were first used in dishes to impress emperors during the <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Song dynasty<\/span>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/food-drink\/article\/3352692\/mandarin-peel-ice-cream-coffee-gin-why-chun-pei-tcm-ingredient-gaining-favour?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The summer of 2016 was unseasonably hot, especially at the Fu Shin Street Wet Market in Tai Po, in Hong Kong\u2019s New Territories, where Chest\u2019N&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[15895,3619,2088,20154,7720,22284,2087,7885,14298,10182,2983,7680],"class_list":["post-50809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-chun","tag-coffee","tag-cream","tag-favour","tag-gaining","tag-gin","tag-ice","tag-ingredient","tag-mandarin","tag-peel","tag-pei","tag-tcm","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}