Bing Tang Hu Lu is a popular traditional winter snack in northern China, especially in Beijing, and particularly with children. It consists of candied fruit on bamboo skewers. This snack can usually be found along the snack street of Wangfujing but there are are also street vendors who travel from place to place selling them. This typically has a hardened sugar coating that comes from dipping the skewer in sugar syrup, but versions can also be found with a second chocolate coating or sprinkles. The fruit that is used is traditionally Chinese hawthorn but in recent times, vendors have also used strawberries, blueberries, pineapples, kiwifruit, grapes, tomatoes, bananas, and apples. (c)