The winter in Liaoning is freezing cold, but various snacks can still be found across streets, which is a hustle and bustle here through winter. Winter snacks, such as frozen pears, roasted sweet potatoes, tanghulu (sugar-coated haws on a stick) and frozen persimmons, are not only what children are obsessed with, but also childhood foods that adults love to retaste. Frozen autumn pears may look unattractive, but are luscious and refreshing. Tanghulu in Northeast China is in a great variety: with round or flat shapes, and fillings of mung bean paste, red bean paste, taro paste, jujube paste, or even chocolate. More interestingly, strawberries, grapes, oranges, Chinese yams and sweet potatoes are now all made into tanglulu. Surely, everything can be “sugar-coated”!