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Crisp Molt Bean Candy-A story of 600 years old, a page of Tun Bao History Hong Wu the 14th year of Ming dynasty (1381), Ming Tai Zhu (Zhu Yuanzhang) sent the South Expedition General Fu Youde, who led 300,000 troops, to Yunnan to suppress the minority’s rebellion. After victory, most of the troops returned to the capital but some stayed, through the combination of defense and cultivation together, they carried on their lives in the mountainious area without any influence by outside world until they were discovered by anthropologist after 1949. Tu Bao people is the descendant of these remaining Ming troops. Su Dou Tang (Crisp Molt Bean Candy) was their traveling military food, which appeared in Jiangnan 600 years ago and was brought into Tun Bao by the above mentioned troops. Today it has been lost in its original place Jiangnan but is preserved here in Tun Bao as a common-used health food by the Tun Bao people. (n.b. Tun Bao is located in Tianlong County, Guizhou, China. Here a lot of Ming Jiangnan culture, architecture, opera and custom is preserved because the troops were mostly from Jiangnan, and the special closed location makes it unaffected by the changing dynasties and times.) 
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Very interesting. I am most interested in finding out how to make the Su DOng Tang now.  Maybe another time?? Many Blessings. Bear.
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Dear Bear, I would try to find out for you. I may go there in Oct/Nov. 2005. Blessings, Swallow
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