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Dalgona (달고나) is a Korean candy made with melted sugar and baking soda originating from South Korea.[1][2] It is a popular street snack from the 1960s, and is still eaten as a retro food.[3] When a pinch of baking soda is mixed into melted sugar, the thermal decomposition of the baking soda releases carbon dioxide, which makes the liquidized sugar puff up and becomes a light and crunchy candy once cooled and hardened.[4] Typically, the creamy beige liquid is poured on a flat surface, pressed flat, and stamped using a cookie cutter imprinting an image on the candy such as a star or a heart. Consumers try to trim their way around the outline on the snack without breaking the picture as a challenge.[4] Traditionally, if this trimming is completed without breaking the candy, the consumer receives another free dalgona from the seller.[5]
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| Type | Sugar candy |
|---|---|
| Place of origin | South Korea |
| Associated cuisine | Korean cuisine |
| Main ingredients | Sugar, baking soda |
| Similar dishes | Honeycomb toffee |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 달고나 |
|---|---|
| Revised Romanization | Dalgona |
| McCune–Reischauer | Talgona |
| IPA | [tal.ɡo.na] |
| Alternative name | |
| Hangul | 뽑기 |
| Revised Romanization | Ppopgi |
| McCune–Reischauer | Ppopki |
| IPA | [p͈op̚.k͈i] |
Modern cafes in Korea serve novel dalgona coffee beverages where dalgona-flavoured coffee cream is heaped on top of iced tea or coffee,[6] as well as pastries such as scones.[7] Some cafes also used dalgona to make desserts such as bingsu and souffle.[8][9]
Dalgona appeared in an episode of the Netflix series Squid Game, with a deadly version of the dalgona challenge being the second game played in the series. The success and international popularity of the show led to a revival of the candy's popularity in South Korea along with the rising prevalence around the world.[10][11] Sales have doubled for dalgona street vendors as foreigners become more interested in the candy.[12][13] People have also taken to social media such as TikTok and YouTube to make their own candy at home as a challenge and as a cooking recipe.[14]
Dalgona was originally a term specific for expensive candies that use glucose which did not use a pattern,, while ppopgi was originally candies that use sugar and thus could be easily molded into shapes such as stars and circles. Due to problems with dalgona regarding its susceptibility to getting moldy, the word dalgona began to refer to the same food as ppopgi.[15][16] In the Gyeonggi Province, including Seoul and Incheon, it was mainly called dalgona and ppopgi, but the names vary from region to region.[17][18]
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