I have a good friend who lives in NYC’s Chinatown neighborhood, so inevitably I find myself buying all sorts of different foodstuffs when I go to visit her.  It’s impossible for me to pass block after block of Chinese fruit stands and fish markets without finding something new to pique my interest.  This evening’s surprise, after a dinner of dim sum, happened to be a wooden stick of what looked to be candied apples.

The little skewer pierced through four little crab apples, dipped in a bright red hard candy coating, was way too tempting to pass up.  And once we arrived back at her apartment, we decided to cut into one to see just what lie underneath that shell.

Crab apples they were indeed!  However, they had been pickled!!!  A very startling discovery (that I may not want to have again…), considering the candy apples I grew up eating have always been sweet and juicy, not chewy and tart!

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