Which is poured on a small pan and melted over briquettes. What is Dalgona?ĭalgona is a candy that was popular among children in the 1960s~1970s. Made out of white sugar. It is so simple that the grumpy feline on Instagram is also in on the game.īefore we proceed on the steps to preparing the trending candy in Squid Game, let us learn one thing or a two before. Naturally, kits for making dalgona candy have been flying off online shopping portals and the prices can range from less than S$5 to S$28.īut it is a recipe consisting of just white sugar (the kind you add to coffee) and a pinch of baking soda. (Maybe someone should start a game with that.) ![]() The confectionery is traditionally sold as street food in South Korea, much like how biscuit piring (yup, those wafer-thin treats in yellow, pink, and green) is sold at our pasar malam. And since the little game involves using a toothpick, the candy is also known as ppopgi, meaning to pick. In real life, those who succeed in picking out the shapes get rewarded with another wafer-thin honeycomb by the vendor. Break the shape and there were no sweet endings for them. Immortalised as the high-stakes children’s game in the third episode, the brittle honeycomb thins were given out to the participants in the show, who had to pick shapes out of their dalgona candy with needles. Now, thanks to the hit South Korean drama Squid Game, it’s dalgona candy. A traditional candy that you can easily make at your home! So if you are interested to ride this trend, check this article to learn how to make Dalgona just like in Squid Game!įirst, it was dalgona coffee (remember those “circuit breaker” days?). If you are into Korean series, you might already know about the new Netflix show ‘Squid game’, right? This is undoubtedly a great show to learn about Korean traditional games and activities! But one of the games that seemed to caught everyone’s attention, was the ‘Honeycomb game’. Most recently, a school district in New York outright banned its students from donning its familiar red and green jumpsuits, fearing that children would be hurt attempting to copy the games from the show.How to make sugar honeycomb in Squid Game Dalgona – prepare your dalgona candy in just 5 easy steps at home. As Squid Game seemed to cause an obvious spike in Halloween sales, there were those who attempted to preemptively discourage people from mimicking the show’s contests. Recently in the run-up to Halloween, Netflix celebrated Squid Game’s success by staging a small, substantially less life-threatening recreation of some of the games featured in the show. Helmed by Hwang Dong-hyuk, the survival drama follows 456 debt-ridden contestants who are coerced to play a series of deadly children’s games in the hopes of securing an enormous cash prize. ![]() Squid Game made its debut in September and rapidly became Netflix’s most successful show to date. Also depicted in the hit Netflix series are deadly iterations of Red Light, Green Light, Tug of War, and Marbles. The game, also known as Dalgona Candy, is particularly familiar to Korean audiences and is just one of a multitude of contests featured on the show. ![]() ![]() A 14-year-old boy has been hospitalized following an attempt to recreate Squid Game’s infamous honeycomb challenge.
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