Shanghai Pear-Syrup Candy Shop
×Ligao Tang (pear syrup candy)
Why you must eat itAmber candy made by simmering pear juice with medicinal herbs until it sets. Originally a throat remedy, once sold at the City God Temple to the seller's patter. Under the sweetness a faint herbal bitterness remains — a taste found nowhere else. Being candy, it keeps well, so it travels.
A pear-syrup-candy specialist that has passed down the City God Temple tradition for generations. On Fangbang Road beside the bean shop, it is one of the old town's souvenir stops. Beyond the plain kind there are mint and dried-tangerine versions. Many people really do suck it as a throat lozenge.
- Nearest
- Fangbang Rd (Yuyuan Stn)
- Hours
- 09:00-21:00
- Price
- ¥ CNY