East Wind Snack Shop

Dragon’s Beard Candy Is a Chinese and Lunar New Year Tradition | Eater

"A New York snack-shop owner developed a refined, hands-on method for making the classic candy—drawing on skills from hand-pulled noodles, adjusting rope length and pull height, and honing timing and heat to produce superior texture—and can reportedly transform a single candy rope into about 12,000 strands in 10–12 pulls. He emphasizes that subtle factors like rope length, pull height, cooking temperature, and local climate (humidity, dampness) radically affect the outcome, has shared the craft online with a video that drew tens of thousands of views, and notes that while interest spikes around Chinese New Year due to nostalgia, the confection remains a niche item in much of the West." - Tiffany Leigh